1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1276/2 King Henrie the third, disdaining to haue officers appointed him by his subiects, did..depriue the said Nicholas, and replaced the said Walter Merton.

1595 S. Daniel First Fowre Bks. Ciuile Warres iii. xxix. sig. O2 To chaste th' vsurper, and replace their king.

1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 32 This princess..made it her design..to see the majesty royal of England once again replaced in her house.

1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. xvi. 517 They..replaced Lambert, and all the rest who had been cashiered by Oliver, into their own Charges again.

1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 352 This Emulation, that Matter always retains, to..replace it self..in the same Figure, which..Nature originally impressed on it.

1838 A. De Morgan Ess. Probabilities 61 Drawings are made, after each of which the ball is replaced.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1918/2 A bridge by which the wheels of cars are replaced upon the track.

1912 F. J. Haskin Amer. Govt. 276 He took out the cork, smelled of it, and then replaced it.

1951 Good Housek. Cookery Bk. (1957) 304/2 Add the liqueur and brandy to the sauce, and replace the folded crêpes in the pan.

1991 Which? Aug. 477/3 Replace your boots on your bare feet, and paddle across waterway with well-protected feet.

1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. ii. iii. 403 Whatever part of his stock a man employs as a capital, he always expects it to be replaced to him with a profit.

1798 T. Jefferson Let. 17 Apr. in Papers (2003) XXX. 278 I will undertake to have it replaced to him the first week in July in Richmond.

1842 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 150 The desire to replace to me the irreplaceable.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. liv. 212 Dost think I shall grudge to replace, to three times the value, what she disposes of?

1797 R. Southey Lett. from Spain xxiv. 424 A convent, founded for twenty religious, that has thirty now, should not be permitted to replace ten when they died.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. vi. 71 The natives to the south have lost nearly all their..walrus-lines..and will be unable to replace them till the return of the seal.

1887 East Anglian Notes & Queries New Ser. 2 176 Manshare means a fisherman's complement of nets or his share which he has to provide, mend, keep in order, or..replace.

1925 Amer. Mercury Jan. 109/2 First, however, he ‘cut out’ to replace the lost wife.

1963 W. C. Kenneison & A. J. B. Spilman Dict. Printing 95 Imperfections, sheets rejected by the binder and returned to the printer to be replaced.

1997 Sun 26 Dec. 17/1 Cops raised £30 in a whip-round to replace Christmas toys stolen from a house.

1765 Museum Rusticum 4 173 You must..replace such as have failed, with the best and most likely plants.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. ii. iii. 54 Thou wouldst not replace such extinct Lie by a new Lie.

1885 H. W. Watson & S. H. Burbury Math. Theory Electr. & Magn. I. 262 Let us replace S by another closed surface.

1933 S. Walker Night Club Era 25 A rumor came from a mid-Western college that the students had thrown out their Bibles and replaced them with ouija boards.

1965 W. C. Krumbein & F. A. Graybill Introd. Statist. Models Geol. ii. 15 A mathematical model is an abstraction of a physical model in that it replaces objects, forces, events, etc., by an expression that contains mathematical variables, parameters, and constants.

2004 BBC Good Food Oct. 26/1 Make it veggie—replace the ham with mushrooms cooked in garlic butter.