SUCCEDANEOUS

SUCCEDANEOUS

ADJECTIVE
1. taking or serving in the place of something else; acting as a substitute ...1646 obs.
(in the 17th century, said especially of medicinal applications or ingredients)
2. supplementary ...1665 obs. rare
 
ETYMOLOGY
from Latin succedaneus (succidaneus) that follows after or succeeds to something, that supplies the place of something,
from succedere to succeed
 
FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
1646 - see EXAMPLE below
 
EXAMPLE
"He prescribeth the stones of the Otter, or River-Dog,
as succedaneous unto Castoreum."
 
(Castoreum = secretion produced by beavers)
 
From: Pseudodoxica Epidemica:
Or Enquiries Into Very Many Received Tenents
and Commonly Presumed Truths
By: Sir Thomas Browne, 1646
 
SOURCES
• A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles,
James Murray, 1887-1933
• The Century Dictionary and Encyclopedia,
William Dwight Whitney, 1889-1891
• The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language,
​Rev. John Ogilvie, 1847-1850