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displant, v.|dɪsˈplɑːnt, -plænt|
[ad. OF. desplanter = Sp. desplantar, It. dispiantare:—Romanic *displantāre, for L. dēplantāre, f. de- I. 6, dis- + plantāre to plant.]
1. trans. To take up or remove (a plant) from the ground; to uproot.
1491Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de W. 1495) ii. 256 a/1 A tree whiche is ofte dysplaunted & transported from one grounde to an other may bere no fruyte. 1635R. Bolton Comf. Affl. Consc. xv. 79 A strong and mightie Oake..which no storme or tempest can displant or overthrow. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Saffron Crocus, After these Bulbs are displanted the Gardiner must be sure to keep them..Three Weeks without replanting them. 1800Trans. Soc. Encourag. Arts XVIII. 99 When the hops are displanted.
†2. To remove (a person) from his settled position; to dislodge (people) from their settlements or country; spec. to undo the settlement or establishment of (a ‘plantation’ or colony). Obs.
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. iii. 59 Displant a Towne, reuerse a Princes Doome. 1596Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 615/1 One of the occasions by which all those countryes, which..had bene planted with English, were shortly displanted and lost. 1605Hieron Short Dial. 49 Almost 300 preachers are already eyther displanted, inhibited, or under..censure. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 39 The..Greeks had planted certaine Colonies thereabout, and displanted the barbarous. 1650J. Musgrave Grievances of North. Co. 27 All Israel..were displanted, and carried away into captivity. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 370 A Colony..in Dariana, displanted for the unsoundnesse of the ayre.
†3. fig.
a. To root up, eradicate;
b. to supplant.
1603H. Crosse Vertues Commw. (1878) 98 Others..displant all good order established. 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus i. 6 He must..displant vices, and plant the contrarie vertues. 1624Massinger Renegado iii. i, Some other hath displanted me, With her dishonour. a1638Mede Apost. Lat. Times (1641) 83 Three of these..should the Anti⁓christian horne depresse and displant, to advance himselfe.
Hence disˈplanting vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1604Shakes. Oth. ii. i. 283 By the displanting of Cassio. 1616H. Gosnold in Lismore Papers (1887) Ser. ii. II. 20 The stock which I am tyed to purchase vnder paine of displanting. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Tulip, Take a Gardiners displanting Groove, and thrust it into the Ground. 1727Bailey vol. II, Displanting Scoop, an Instrument to take up Plants with Earth about them. |