transplacev.
/trɑːnsˈpleɪs//transˈpleɪs/ rare.
transitive. To change the place of, transpose; to oust from its position in favour of something else. (Also with the two things as object.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > in different position
changea1375
movea1382
shifta1400
skifta1400
transpose?1518
shiften1544
transplace1621
trans-situate1630
translocate1650
shuffle1694
mudge1823
relocate1829
translaya1861
to change around1871
the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > supplanting or replacement > supplant, replace [verb (transitive)]
fulfila1200
underplantc1200
supplanta1398
subplanta1425
recompense?a1439
supply1567
bestead1596
second1600
reimplace1611
transplace1621
displant1630
succenturiate1650
supersede1657
substitute1675
recruit1711
replace1753
displace1774
substitute1775
supplace1777
outplace1928
1621 H. Ainsworth Annot. Five Bks. Moses & Bk. Psalmes Psalm xlii. 6 The Greeke readeth thus; the salvation of my face and my God; transplacing the Hebrew letters.
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 205 ‘Not so killing but so secret’... We should have written ‘as’ in both places probably, but at all events in the latter, transplacing the sentences ‘as secret though not so killing’ [etc.].
1878 L. Villari tr. P. Villari Life & Times Machiavelli (1898) I. 16 In the ‘Decameron’ Latin periods already transform and transplace Italian periods.
Derivatives
transˈplacing n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > [noun] > placing or being placed in different position
transposition1538
shuffling1604
transplacing1615
translocation1617
transposal1695
relocating1789
relocation1834
translocalization1883
re-siting1916
repositioning1931
1615 W. Lawson Country Housewifes Garden (1626) 26 An artificiall transplacing or transposing of a twig, bud, or leafe, commonly called a graft.
1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick i. xi. 75 The transplacing of that Obelisk at Rome by Sixtus the first, was done in some few days by five or six hundred men.
1711 J. Greenwood Ess. Pract. Eng. Gram. 217 Of Transposition or the transplacing of words and sentences.
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