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(transitive, archaic) To remove anything from where it has been planted or placed; to drive a person from their home..
1844, Court of Common Pleas, May v. Taylor, 3 June, 1843 in The Jurist, London: V. & R. Stevens & G.S. Norton, Volume 7, Part 2, p. 515, […] with respect to the particular question of five acres of ground being displanted of hops, the jury knew that the peculiar blight, called the wire-worm, was contagious, and that since it had got into some of the plants, the best thing that could be done for the rest of the garden, was to grub up the bine which was injured.
[…] Hang up philosophy! Unless philosophy can make a Juliet, Displant a town, reverse a prince’s doom, It helps not, it prevails not: talk no more.
I like a Plantation in a pure Soyl, that is, where People are not Displanted, to the end, to Plant others; for else it is rather an Extirpation, than a Plantation.
But the Ships, in which this second Colony was transported, had not been many Days returned into England, before we find Ralegh’s Thoughts diverted, for a while, from planting in a foreign Country, and engaged upon Schemes of displanting rather those powerful Enemies who were preparing to root themselves in his own.
Use displant when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Displant means (transitive, archaic) To remove anything from where it has been planted or placed; to drive a person from their home..
Common synonyms include displace.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1844, Court of Common Pleas, May v. Taylor, 3 June, 1843 in The Jurist, London: V. & R. Stevens & G.S. Norton, Volume 7, Part 2, p. 515, […] with respect to the particular question of five acres of ground being displanted of hops, the jury knew that the peculiar blight, called the wire-worm, was contagious, and that since it had got into some of the plants, the best thing that could be done for the rest of the garden, was to grub up the bine which was injured.
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