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Meaning of DISPLANT

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Dis*plant"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Di?planted}; p. pr.
& vb. n. {Displanting}.] [Pref. dis- + plant: cf. OF.
desplanter, F. d['e]planter.]
1. To remove (what is planted or fixed); to unsettle and take
   away; to displace; to root out; as, to displant
   inhabitants.
         I did not think a look, Or a poor word or two, could
         have displanted Such a fixed constancy. --Beau. &
                                               Fl.
2. To strip of what is planted or settled; as, to displant a
   country of inhabitants. --Spenser.
 
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