substruct

English

Etymology

See substruction.

Verb

substruct (third-person singular simple present substructs, present participle substructing, simple past and past participle substructed)

1. To build beneath something; to lay as the foundation.
   • 1850, Ralph Waldo Emerson, s:Representative Men/Plato; or, the Philosopher:

     He substructs the religion of Asia as the base.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “substruct”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)