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displant

[ dis-plant, -plahnt ]

verb (used with object)

Obsolete.
  1. to dislodge.
  2. to transplant.


displant

/ »åɪ²õˈ±è±ôɑ˲Գ٠/

verb

  1. to displace
  2. to transplant (a plant)
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of displant1

1485–95; dis- 1 + plant, modeled on Middle French desplanter
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Displant, dis-plant′, v.t. to remove anything from where it has been planted or placed: to drive from an abode.—n.

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These compliments, two months old, may last week have turned to ashes for President Pease when he heard no authoritative Amherst voice sound forth to deny that, a "good" man having just been found, a "great" man might almost immediately displant him.

Unless philosophy can make a Juliet, Displant a town, reverse a prince’s doom, It helps not, it prevails not: talk no more!â€

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And because, said he, they would the better displant me, if they cannot lay hands on me, they have gotten a nephew of mine called Eparacano, whom they have christened Don Juan, and his son Don Pedro, whom they have also apparelled and armed, by whom they seek to make a party against me in mine own country.

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Yet banished? hang vp Philosophie: Vnlesse Philosophie can make a Iuliet, Displant a Towne, reuerse a Princes Doome, It helpes not, it preuailes not, talke no more Fri.

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