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.

Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.

1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth
This edition is the same in substance with the Latin.

It is insolent in words, in manner; but in substance it is not only insulting, but alarming.

Some textile fabrics have little substance.

If life were nothing but what gets phrased and substanced, the world might as well be rolled up and laid away again in darkness.

The calm ruminating / Reverie, substancing / Intellect into emotion, / Is shelter enough for love / Unhumiliated by faith.

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