单词 | subplant |
释义 | subplantv.ΘΚΠ the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > supplanting or replacement > supplant, replace [verb (transitive)] fulfila1200 underplantc1200 supplanta1398 subplanta1425 recompense?a1439 supply1567 bestead1596 second1600 reimplace1611 transplace1621 displant1630 succenturiate1650 supersede1657 substitute1675 recruit1711 replace1753 displace1774 substitute1775 supplace1777 outplace1928 a1425 (a1382) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Gen. xxvii. 36 He forsothe hath subplauntid [a1382 Bodl. supplauntid] me. 1470 M. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 367 Mad to subplant you. 1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) iii. 35 The Normans haveinge subdued and subplanted the Saxon Kinges. 1684 B. Keach Progress of Sin iv. 69 'Tis good to sow our Seed timely; and to take Possession, before we are subplanted by our Enemy. 1710 F. Child Let. 5 Jan. in C. R. Wilson Early Annals Eng. in Bengal (1895) I. 366 I am subplanted by those persons that never had any comision before the honour of yours. 2. transitive. Originally: †to uproot (literal and figurative), to eradicate; = supplant v. 6 (obsolete). Later: to replace or supersede (a thing); cf. supplant v. 4, 5. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > root out or up louka1000 morec1325 roota1387 unroot?a1425 stubc1450 roota1500 rid?1529 root-walt?1530 subplant1547 supplant1549 root?1550 grub1558 eradicate1564 to stump up1599 deracinate1609 uproot1695 aberuncate1731 eracinate1739 rootle1795 disroot1800 piggle1847 1547 A. Kelton Chronycle with Genealogie sig. d.ii Who were the cruell, persecutours Who subplanted, Christes religion. 1655 R. Gardiner Englands Grievance Discovered 143 Their Orchards and Gardens shall be subplanted, their Trees shall be digged up by the roots. 1757 J. Dalrymple Ess. Hist. Feudal Prop. i. 18 The language of the feudal books which he made to subplant that of the Saxons. 1859 Trans. China Branch of Royal Asiatic Soc. 6 143 The Manchu literature had already subplanted the Neu-chih character. 1896 Daily Kennebec Jrnl. (Augusta, Maine) 16 Nov. 5/2 The old regular and monotonous ‘turn-turn’ of the supposed banjo has been sub-planted by syncopated, or..‘rag’ time. 1913 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 8 Nov. 3 The automobile having demonstrated its ability to subplant the horse. 1985 P. A. Hoglund in A. Attari & D. L. Klass Nat. Gas Energy Measurem. (2005) 2 The slide rule disappeared with advent of the hand held calculator; which in turn has been subplanted by the personal computer. 2001 R. B. McCabe Civic Librarianship ii. 39 The antisocial and morally empty underpinnings of the libertarian public library will become increasingly clear if the traditional public library is further subplanted by the libertarian model. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.a1425 |
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