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succedaneum

[suhk-si-dey-nee-uhm] / ˌsʌk sɪˈdeɪ ni əm /




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Learning the meanings of the words they will be asked to spell—vivisepulture, succedaneum, pococurante, cymotrichous, guetapens—won’t make these children any smarter, more driven, or more appreciative of language and education than they already are.

From Slate May 28, 2015

Learning the meanings of the words they will be asked to spell—vivisepulture, succedaneum, pococurante, cymotrichous, guetapens—won’t make these children any smarter, more driven, and more appreciative of language and education than they already are.

From Slate Apr. 10, 2013

Caput succedaneum, the deep bruising of the scalp layer immediately next to the bony skull?

From Time Magazine Archive

Conley, who finished second in last year's bee, went head-to-head with Kristin Hawkins for five rounds before knocking her off with succedaneum, which means "one who succeeds to the place of another."

From Time Magazine Archive

Dr. Lardner has commenced a "Library," as a kind of succedaneum to his valuable "Cyclopaedia."

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 489, May 14, 1831 by Various

Much spare room is enclosed by the town walls: evaporation and Nature's scavengers act succedanea for sewerage.

From First Footsteps in East Africa by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Justice, Justice, in the name of Heaven; give us Justice, and we live; give us only counterfeits of it, or succedanea for it, and we die!

From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Carlyle, Thomas

Are any medicines to be given as succedanea to the specific remedy for the purpose of rendering its action more sure or prompt?

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

The "two economies which are the best succedanea" for deficiency of temperament are concentration and drill.

From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Holmes, Oliver Wendell




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