displant

t. [Old French des planter; FD. déplanter.] I. Lit .: To cut down or pluck up that which ha been planted; to remove trees, plants, . "Disforest is to displant or cut down the trees of a forest."-Nelson: Laws concerning Game, p. 50. IMG:content-0150.png:[blocks in formation] "I like a plantation in a pure soil; that is, where people are not displanted ."- Bacon . 2. To strip of inhabitants; to dispeople, to depopulate. "All those countries, which, lying near unto any mountains, or Irish deserts, had been planted with English, were shortly displanted and lost."- Spenser : State of Ire land . 3. To remove, to displace. "I did not think a look Or a poor word or two could have displanted Such a fixed constancy." Beaum. & Flet.: Woman's Prize, iii. 1. dis-plăn-tā-tion, s. [Pref. dis , and Eng. plan tation (q. v.).] 1. Lit.: The act of cutting down or removing trees, plants, . 2. Fig .: The act of removing or ejecting the inhabitants of a district, town, . "This transmigration, plantation, and displantation happened in the year of the world 3292."-Raleigh: Hist. of World , bk. ii., ch. ix., § 3. *dis-plant-ěd, pa . par . or a . [DISPLANT.] *dis-plant-Ing, pr . par . , a. & 8. [DISPLANT.] A. & B. As pr . par . & particip . adj.: (See the verb.) C. As substantive: I. Lit .: The act of cutting down or removing 4. To banish. "Religion and theism must of nece ity be displaced." - Cudworth: Intellectual System, p. 890. 5. To take the place of, to supersede. "Holland displaced Portugal as the mistre of those seas." London Times. *6. To disturb, to break up. "You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting With most admired disorder." Shakesp.: Macbeth , iii. 4.