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The last class of words that supply the materials of comment are the Substantives.

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 2 by MacGillivray, John

Adjectives, Adverbs, and Substantives, have three Degrees of Comparison, the Positive, the Comparative, and the Superlative.

From A Short System of English Grammar For the Use of the Boarding School in Worcester (1759) by Bate, Henry

Substantives are compared by the Adjectives more, most, the Words than, or that, always following; as a Dunce, more a Dunce than I or me, the most a Dunce that ever I did see.

From A Short System of English Grammar For the Use of the Boarding School in Worcester (1759) by Bate, Henry

For, what are Epithets, but Adjectives that denote and express the Qualities of the Substantives to which they are join'd? as Purple, Rosie, Smiling, Dewy, Morning: Dim, Gloomy, Silent, Night.

From The Art of English Poetry (1708) by Bysshe, Edward

This now silent or vanished Vowel occurred heretofore, with metrical power, in adopted French Substantives, as—eloquenc-e, maladi-e; and in their plurals, as—maladi-es.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 by Various