Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
(quote-magazine)
The essential part of anything; the most vital part.
(w) (1631-1700)
Heroic virtue did his actions guide, / And he the substance, not the appearance, chose.
Bishop Burnet
This edition is the same in substance with the Latin.
(w) (1729-1797)
It is insolent in words, in manner; but in substance it is not only insulting, but alarming.
Substantiality; solidity; firmness.
(ux)
Material possessions; estate; property; resources.
Bible, (w) xv. 13
And there wasted his substance with riotous living.
(w) (1564-1616)
Thy substance, valued at the highest rate, / Cannot amount unto a hundred marks.
(w) (1667–1745)
We are destroying many thousand lives, and exhausting our substance, but not for our own interest.
A form of matter that has constant chemical composition and characteristic properties.