* Paraphrase for the noun substantive "idiot." It is also a specimen of the Greek figure "litotes."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
'We' - this is not a substantive speech, but an abstract of many speeches, the impression left upon my mind after a great deal of talk; and very youthful, pleasant, natural, and patriotic it seems to me to be - 'We have gained all races, except those where we were cheated by the French.'英文原著 · 《An Inland Voyage》
lat.' Ibid. 7 b: '5 molini villanorum.' We have not seen dominicum used as a substantive; but in the Exon. 75 we have dominicatus Regis, for the king's demesne. There is already a slight ambiguity about the term dominium. We may say that a church has a manor in dominio, meaning thereby that the manor as a whole is held by the church itself and is not held of it by any tenant; and then we may go on to say that only one half of the land comprised in this manor is held by the church in dominio. Law, ii.英文原著 · 《Domesday Book and Beyond》
Mescro. A particle which, affixed to a verb, forms a substantive masculine:- e.g. Camo, I love; camo-mescro, a lover. Nash, to run; nashi-mescro, a runner. It is equivalent to Mengro, q.v.英文原著 · 《Gypsy Dictionary》
The Cyclic poet uses `beggar' as a substantive, and so means to say that when Odysseus had changed his clothes and put on rags, there was no one so good for nothing at the ships as Odysseus.英文原著 · 《Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica》
<74.1> "To falsify a thrust," says Phillips (WORLD OF WORDS, ed. 1706, art. FALSIFY), "is to make a feigned pass." Lovelace here employs the word as a substantive rather awkwardly; but the meaning is, no doubt, the same.英文原著 · 《Lucasta》
I'm sure if we just make one or two substantive concessions...美剧 · 《The Good Wife》