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displace, v.|dɪsˈpleɪs|
[ad. OF. desplacer (15th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), mod.F. déplacer to displace, f. des-, dis- 1, 4 + place n., placer to place.]
1. trans. To remove or shift from its place; to put out of the proper or usual place. († In quot. 1551, To transpose.)
1551T. Wilson Logicke (1580) 28 By conuersion of the Propositions, and by displacyng the same, settyng one in an others steede. 1553― Rhet. (1580) 203 The whiche wordes beyng altered or displaced, the figure straight dooeth lose his name. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iv. (1586) 187 b, Cut away part of the Coames..which you must do with a very sharpe knife, for feare of displacing the rest of the Coames. 1611Shakes. Cymb. iv. ii. 122 [He] swore..heel'd [= he'd]..Displace our heads, where (thanks the Gods) they grow, And set them on Luds-Towne. 1781Cowper Expostulation 258 Thy diadem displaced, thy sceptre gone. 1837Whewell Hist. Induct. Sc. (1857) I. 151 [The moon] may be displaced by this cause to the amount of twice her own breadth.
†b. fig. To remove, banish. Obs.
1580Sidney Ps. xxxix. vi, Ah! yet from me lett thy plagues be displac'd. 1596Spenser Hymne Heavenly Love 264 All other loves..Thou must renounce and utterly displace. 1605Shakes. Macb. iii. iv. 109. 1675 Hobbes Odyss. viii. 64 When their thirst and hunger was displac'd.
2. To remove from a position, dignity, or office.
1553T. Wilson Rhet. (1580) 68 When God striketh the mightie.. and displaceth those that were highly placed. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 6/1 King Solomon displaced Abiathar the high preest. 1687in Magd. Coll. & James II (Oxf. Hist. Soc.) 98 To place, or displace, Members of Colleges. 1709Steele Tatler No. 84 ⁋4 With a Design to displace them, in case I find their Titles defective. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 556 Enjoining him..to displace all the Popish officers who held commands under him. 1853Stocqueler Milit. Encycl., Officers are sometimes displaced from a particular regiment in consequence of misconduct, but they are at liberty to serve in any other corps.
3. To oust (something) from its place and occupy it instead:
a. to put something else in the place of;
b. to take the place of, supplant, ‘replace’.
a. [1667Milton P.L. i. 473 Gods Altar to disparage and displace For one of Syrian mode.] 1844H. H. Wilson Brit. India III. 458 To displace by regular garrisons the troops of the Thakurs. 1853Sir H. Douglas Milit. Bridges 41 The desideratum is, to displace as much water, with as little weight of vessel as possible.
b. [1634Milton Comus 560 A soft and solemn-breathing sound..stole upon the air, that even Silence..wished she might Deny her nature, and be never more, Still to be so displaced.] 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) I. 188 A cork, a ship, a buoy, each buries itself a bed on the surface of the water; this bed may be considered as so much water displaced. 1831Lardner Hydrost. viii. 157 A body when it floats in a liquid, displaces a quantity of the liquid equal to its own weight. 1889A. R. Wallace Darwinism 29 In three years..this weed..absolutely displaced every other plant on the ground. |