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    substratum


    1. This is the substratum of all human thoughts, feelings, inspirations and actions


    2. Consciousness which is the substratum of all beings


    3. Wherefore meditate on this Tantra hereafter because it subsumes the substratum of the Vedas, Agamas, Upanishads, Puranas, Itihāsas and previous Tantric literature


    4. Accordingly beneath the faith of most thoughtful Christians lies a hidden substratum of involuntary unbelief, which breaks out now and then in a kind of volcanic eruption and earthquake


    5. It will be found, not in a contrary theory as to the substratum of mind, or as to the eternity of the thinking power, but in the preaching of a credible judgment to come, and of the grace of God in the salvation purchased by Christ


    6. plays role of a substratum in relation to the rest of human weaknesses


    7. He loved her; ought he to marry her? Dared he to marry her? What would his mother and his brothers say? What would he himself say a couple of years after the event? That would depend upon whether the germs of staunch comradeship underlay the temporary emotion, or whether it were a sensuous joy in her form only, with no substratum of everlastingness


    8. A substratum of war stirred within her


    9. He thought of doing a huge abstraction called Substratum Dream of a Flag-pole Skater


    10. Only the theoretical substratum, based on the study of human nature, can make the judgments in this sphere firm and independent of all casualties, and to a considerable degree guard them against gross errors

    11. But this "theoretical substratum," as Mr


    12. For the old method of instruction possessed just such a theoretical substratum


    13. And thus, the new methods were taken from the Germans, and not by themselves, but with a theoretical substratum, that is, with a quasi-philosophical justification of these methods


    14. This theoretical substratum has done great service


    15. Fifteen years ago no attention was paid to it, and the pedagogues of every school, convinced that everybody else was talking to the wind and that they were right, most calmly prescribed their laws, basing their principles on philosophies of a very doubtful character, which they used as a substratum for their wee little theories


    16. The country rises gradually from Richmond to the pits; and, from its sandy appearance, is evidently an alluvial deposit, although its substratum is the granite mentioned by Mr


    17. The rocky substratum of a district can be well seen in its ancient buildings, for in old times carriage was so important an item that the old builders could not go far for their stone; hence we see that the old churches of part of Lancashire and most of Cheshire, and a large portion of Shropshire, are of red sandstone


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    Synonyms for "substratum"

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    "substratum" definitions

    a surface on which an organism grows or is attached


    any stratum or layer lying underneath another


    an indigenous language that contributes features to the language of an invading people who impose their language on the indigenous population