substratum

IPA: sˈʌbstrˈætʌm

Examples of "substratum" in Sentences

Is it not sufficiently expressed in the term substratum, or substance?
The word substratum is used only to express in general the same thing with substance.
If so, the word substratum should import that it is spread under the sensible qualities or accidents?
Nor does matter belong to those things which exist by nature but are not substances; their substratum is the substance.
If we take away the useful labour expended upon them, a material substratum is always left, which is furnished by Nature without the help of man.
Third, is that idea of substance as a bare substratum, which is “a supposed, I know not what, to support those ideas we call accidents.” (xxiii 15).
For if the change is ‘alteration’, then the substratum is a single element; i.e. all things which admit of change into one another have a single matter.
(A) ultimate substratum, which is no longer predicated of anything else, and (B) that which, being a ‘this’, is also separable and of this nature is the shape or form of each thing.
The substratum is the cause of a thing's being or existence; the process of shaping or forming is the cause of its being a particular kind of being or existent, that is, of its having one set of qualities rather than another.