Meaning of displant | Babel Free

Definitions

To remove anything from where it has been planted or placed; to drive a person from their home.

archaic, transitive

Examples

“[…] 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⟳.”

“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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