supplantn.
/səˈplɑːnt/, /səˈplant/, U.S. /səˈplænt/ 1. The action of supplanting something or someone; an instance of this; = supplanting n. rare.
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the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > supplanting or replacement > [noun]
supplantingc1350
supplanta1393
supplantariea1393
supplantation1563
displantinga1616
succeeding1644
replacement1743
supplantment1756
supersedure1758
supersedence1772
supersession1796
substitution1829
displacement1869
supplantal1891
society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > [noun] > treacherous dispossession or displacement
underganginga1300
supplanta1393
supplantariea1393
supplantationa1393
supplantinga1500
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. l. 2488 (MED) Lo, what Supplant of love doth: This Geta forth bejaped wente..Amphitrion him hath supplanted With sleyhte of love.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. l. 2951 This Bonefas [sc. Pope Boniface VIII], which can noght hyde The tricherie of his Supplant.
1885 Med. & Surg. Reporter 53 134/1 In an institution of this kind in Louisville, where mothers are taken with their babies and a gradual supplant of the breast is substituted, the mortality has not been over 5 per cent.
1971 Art-language 1 iv. 25 The British educational tradition has partly originated in what amounts to no more than a supplant of ‘natural law’.
2008 N. Ohovwore Lord Is Love 174 The same thing would be ascribed to her..after the supplant as prophesied in the New-Testament.
2. Animal Behaviour. An act of supplanting a less dominant individual from a place or activity. Cf. supplant v. 8b.
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1960 Jrnl. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 57 18 After giving a supplant the male may return to his territory and sing.
1963 Behaviour 21 217 The arrival of the female [weaver bird] is virtually a ‘supplant’ past the male into the nest.
1992 D. L. Cheney & R. M. Seyfarth How Monkeys see World (new ed.) iii. 82 The probability of a supplant depends on the magnitude of the difference between two individuals' ranks.
2005 R. Conniff Ape in Corner Office vii When the subordinate surrenders his place in this fashion, biologists call it a ‘supplant’, and it is a common practice in the human workplace, too.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
supplantv.
/səˈplɑːnt/, /səˈplant/, U.S. /səˈplænt/ 1. † b. transitive. To get or take by dispossession. Obsolete. rare.
a. transitive. To dispossess and take the place of (another), esp. by treacherous or dishonourable means. Also with from, †of (a possession). Also †intransitive with object implied (obsolete).
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society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > treachery > be a traitor to [verb (transitive)] > dispossess or displace by treachery
supplantc1350
c1350 [implied in: Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) xl. 10 Hij þat eten min loues, herieden vp me supplauntynge oþer puttyng out [L. supplantationem].].
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. ix. 4 Eche brother supplauntende shal supplaunte [L. omnis frater supplantans supplantabit], and eche frend gilendely shal go.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. l. 2491 Amphitrion him hath supplanted With sleyhte of love.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. l. 2453 (MED) Agamenon Supplantede the worthi knyht Achilles of that swete wiht, Which named was Brexeida.
?a1425 in D. Knoop & G. P. Jones Mediæval Mason (1933) 264 Ther schal no mayster supplante other.
1461 T. Denys in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) II. 234 Heer in the Kynges house annenst Howard, wher I had hopid to a relevid my-self, I am supplanted and cast oute from hym by a clamour of all his seruauntes at onys.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. lxxxxiiiv Lest he for his synguler auauntage wolde supplant hym of that Erledam.
1529 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. xiv. 256 Noman to supplant Another yn takyng from hym his Cure.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. iii. 70 You three From Millaine did supplant good Prospero. View more context for this quotation
1656 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 4 I am not without fear that you may supplant me in hir favor.
1731 Bp. T. Wilson in J. Keble Life T. Wilson: Pt. II (1863) xxii. 759 He most unworthily supplanted and turned out the worthy Curate..out of his own cure of souls.
1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals iii. v. 55 A rival in the case, is there?—and you think he has supplanted you unfairly.
1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Calderon i. 63 It became the object of his life to supplant his father.
1858 H. W. Longfellow Courtship Miles Standish iv. 76 You have betrayed me! Me, Miles Standish, your friend! have supplanted, defrauded, betrayed me!
1884 Chautauquan Apr. 407/2 Poe believed that Griswold supplanted him from the editorship of Graham's.
1921 Bull. John Rylands Libr. 6 95 There was a full attendance of mourners, including the not very disconsolate widow and the son, the young king who had supplanted him [sc. Edward II].
1970 N. Walford tr. R. Grousset Empire of Steppes ii. v. 234 Noting the physical frailty of his father-in-law, he resolved—notwithstanding the favor shown him—to supplant him.
2008 F. P. Wilson By Sword (2009) x. 396 He forgot his place. He began to think he could supplant me.
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the mind > possession > taking > taking possession > take possession of [verb (transitive)] > appropriate > without right or usurp
fornimOE
crochec1380
presume1387
encroach?a1400
usurpc1400
wrestc1426
accroach?a1439
supplant1483
usurpa1513
usurpate1542
arrogate1573
to usurp on or upon1594
invade1617
1483 W. Caxton tr. A. Chartier Curial sig. ivv And after..Another newe one cometh to the court & shal supplante thy benediction.
a. transitive. To trip; to cause (steps, etc.) to falter; to cause to stumble or fall by tripping. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk upon or tread [verb (transitive)] > stumble over something > cause to stumble
stumblec1330
supplantc1350
tripc1425
to give a person the foot1767
chip1788
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > cause to stumble and fall
stumblec1330
supplantc1350
tripc1425
to give a person the foot1767
leg1835
c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) cxxxix. 5 Vnriȝtful men..to supplaunten [a1382 E.V. Bodl. 959 supplanten; L. supplantare] my ganginges.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Prov. xix. 3 Þe folie of a man supplauntiþ [L. supplantat] his goyngis.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) cxxxix. 5 Wickid men..thoght forto supplant [L. supplantare] my gatis.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xxxvi. 33 His gangyngis sall not be supplantid [L. non supplantabuntur gressus eius].
1534 G. Joye tr. U. Zwingli Dauids Psalter sig. Dd.iiiv Preserue me lorde, from the handes of the vngodly, saue me from the cruel tyraunts whose mynde is to supplant my steapes.
1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Supplant, ouerthrowe, or trippe, with the feete.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 513 His Armes clung to his Ribs, his Leggs entwining Each other, till supplanted down he fell A monstrous Serpent. View more context for this quotation
1708 J. Philips Cyder i. 225 The rocking Town Supplants their Footsteps.
a1785 R. Glover Athenaid (1787) III. xxii. 35 Vicissitude and hazard lurk unseen, Supplanting wary steps.
1854 C. D. Yonge tr. Philo Judaeus Wks. II. 200 You will trip up and supplant the miserable man who takes long strides, and who gives himself airs.
b. transitive. To knock down, overturn. Obsolete. rare.Cf. quot. 1631 at sense 6.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > causing to come or go down > cause to come or go down [verb (transitive)] > bring to the ground/lay low
layc888
afelleOE
to throw downa1250
groundc1275
to lay to ground, to earth (Sc. at eird)c1275
stoopc1275
evena1382
abatec1390
to bring downa1400
falla1400
welt?a1400
throwa1450
tumble1487
succumb1490
strewa1500
vaila1592
flat1607
level1614
floor1642
to fetch down1705
drop1726
supplant1751
1751 F. Hawling Misc. Orig. Poems Var. Subj. 116 The Statesman mounts Ambition's Hill, Thou bidst him glory in his Rise: A Gust of Wind supplants his Skill, The Meteor blazes, falls, and dies.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. v. 14/2 He..has to straddle out his legs, lest the very wind supplant him.
a. transitive. To cause to fall from a position of power, superiority, or virtue; to cause the downfall of, bring low. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > degrading or debasement > degrade [verb (transitive)]
vile1297
supplanta1382
to bring lowa1387
revilea1393
gradea1400
villain1412
abject?a1439
to-gradea1440
vilifyc1450
villainy1483
disparage1496
degradea1500
deject?1521
disgraduate1528
disgress1528
regrade1534
base1538
diminute1575
lessen1579
to turn down1581
to pitch (a person) over the bar?1593
disesteem1594
degender1596
unnoble1598
disrank1599
reduce1599
couch1602
disthrone1603
displume1606
unplume1621
disnoble1622
disworth?1623
villainize1623
unglory1626
ungraduate1633
disennoble1645
vilicate1646
degraduate1649
bemean1651
deplume1651
lower1653
cheapen1654
dethrone1659
diminish1667
scoundrel1701
sink1706
demean1715
abjectate1731
unglorifya1740
unmagnify1747
undignify1768
to take the shine out of (less frequently from, U.S. off)1819
dishero1838
misdemean1843
downgrade1892
demote1919
objectify1973
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Psalms xvii. 40 Þou supplauntidest [L. supplantasti] men rising in me vnder me.
1445 tr. Claudian's De Consulatu Stilichonis in Anglia (1905) 28 269 Lechery, the dowsett syn,..coude nat the supplante.
1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) l. 1591 Oure lorde ihesu Supplanted the deuyl, oure ruggyd enmye.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xvi. 14 Rise, lord, bifor cum him and supplant him [L. supplanta eum].
c1522 T. More Treat. Memorare Nouissima in Wks. (1557) I. 85 He set vpon our fyrst parentes in paradyse, and by pride supplanted them.
1589 J. Batt Portraiture Hypocrisie 128 What greater warre, than..to bid battaile against the worlde and the deuill, which haue so many gynnes wherewith to beguile vs, so many trappes to ensnare vs, so many sleightes to supplant vs, so many trippes to ouerthrowe vs.
c1610–15 Life St. Frideswide in C. Horstmann Lives Women Saints (1886) 81 The diuell enuying these her vertuous studies, thought to supplant her.
1630 P. Massinger Picture sig. F4 To suplant her ile imploy..Two noted courtiers of approued cunning In all the windings of lusts labirinthe.
1710 S. Lovell Charge to Grand Jury for County of Devon 6 If these Men were obliged to speak plain, it might soon appear, that they aim at supplanting Her Majesty, and setting up a Pretender.
1780 W. Cowper Progress of Error 59 Nor these alone..Seek to supplant his inexperienc'd youth.
b. transitive. To ruin or foil, upset (a design, etc.). Obsolete.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > bring to ruin or put an end to
undoc950
shendOE
forfarea1000
endc1000
to do awayOE
aquenchc1175
slayc1175
slayc1175
stathea1200
tinea1300
to-spilla1300
batec1300
bleschea1325
honisha1325
leesea1325
wastec1325
stanch1338
corrumpa1340
destroy1340
to put awayc1350
dissolvec1374
supplanta1382
to-shend1382
aneantizec1384
avoidc1384
to put outa1398
beshenda1400
swelta1400
amortizec1405
distract1413
consumec1425
shelfc1425
abroge1427
downthringc1430
kill1435
poisonc1450
defeat1474
perish1509
to blow away1523
abrogatea1529
to prick (also turn, pitch) over the perka1529
dash?1529
to bring (also send) to (the) pot1531
put in the pot1531
wipea1538
extermine1539
fatec1540
peppera1550
disappoint1563
to put (also set) beside the saddle1563
to cut the throat of1565
to throw (also turn, etc.) over the perch1568
to make a hand of (also on, with)1569
demolish1570
to break the neck of1576
to make shipwreck of1577
spoil1578
to knock on (in) the head (also rarely at head)1579
cipher1589
ruinate1590
to cut off by the shins1592
shipwreck1599
exterminate1605
finish1611
damnify1612
ravel1614
braina1616
stagger1629
unrivet1630
consummate1634
pulverizea1640
baffle1649
devil1652
to blow up1660
feague1668
shatter1683
cook1708
to die away1748
to prove fatal (to)1759
to knock up1764
to knock (or kick) the hindsight out or off1834
to put the kibosh on1834
to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835
kibosh1841
to chaw up1843
cooper1851
to jack up1870
scuttle1888
to bugger up1891
jigger1895
torpedo1895
on the fritz1900
to put paid to1901
rot1908
down and out1916
scuppera1918
to put the skids under1918
stonker1919
liquidate1924
to screw up1933
cruel1934
to dig the grave of1934
pox1935
blow1936
to hit for six1937
to piss up1937
to dust off1938
zap1976
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job viii. 3 Whether God supplauntith dom [L. supplantat judicium], and the Almyȝti turneth vpso doun, that is riȝtwis?
a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1686) III. 257 Doth it not supplant his own designs, and unravel all that he for so many ages hath been doing?
1753 Independent Reflector 12 49 'Twould supplant the Design of this Paper, should I proceed to expatiate on every Thing, preparatory to the Attainment of a considerable Skill in Physic.
4. transitive. Chiefly of things: to take the place of, succeed to the position of, supersede.In quot. a1398 perhaps: to obscure and prevent from ripening.
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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
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. clxxvii. 1070 Þe leef þat is wiþ grape schal not be remoeued..but þe oþere leues þat beþ ferre, for þise leues schulde supplaunte þe grapes.
1641 W. Vaughan Sovles Exercise i. 34 For though the Church Triumphant doth rejoyce To see her Fall, our Jarres supplant our Joyes, And so instead of Psalmes to Heaven sent We temporize, or with her Complement.
1671 C. Trenchfield Cap of Gray Hairs 7 'Ts no hard matter for the talk of Religion, to supplant the practice of it.
1768 Woman of Honor III. 131 The allodial sistem was in reign before it was supplanted by the feodal one.
1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France I. 34 These pantomimes will very soon supplant all poetry.
1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I II. xii. 311 The genius of commerce was fast supplanting that nobler spirit which had made them a nation.
1857 J. Toulmin Smith Parish (new ed.) 100 Fresh Churchwardens can sue those whom they have supplanted.
1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xvii. 93 The minster, which has been wholly supplanted by work of later date.
1901 E. E. Brown in School Rev. 9 500 It may be that football will supplant studies in English at the centre of the school curriculum, as English has already supplanted Latin.
1960 W. E. Hugins Jacksonian Democracy & Working Class iv. 55 Since the old hand process was being supplanted by machinery in many trades,..the need for trained craftsmen had diminished.
2010 New Yorker 25 Jan. 33/3 Modern chain stores had supplanted the local businesses we knew when we were growing up.
5. transitive. To remove from its position, get rid of, oust. Also: to replace or supersede (by or with something else).
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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)]
stira1000
unsheathec1374
removea1398
shifta1400
disroom1489
supplant1534
unplacec1550
displace1552
unperch1578
dislodge1579
unsiege1594
disnest1596
unroost1598
unset1602
unseat1611
dis-element1612
dishabita1616
dislocate1623
disroota1625
disseata1625
rede1638
discardinate1648
disturb1664
disblock1665
start1676
uproot1695
disrest1696
disconcert1744
disannul1794
deplace1839
delocalize1855
disembed1885
disniche1889
the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > supplanting or replacement > supplant, replace [verb (transitive)] > with a substitute
changec1300
supplant1534
replace1765
substitute1839
displace1849
1534 J. Fewterer tr. U. Pinder Myrrour Christes Passion iii. v. f. civ For it apperteyneth to actiue persons and profiters to supplante or to subdue vice.
1565 J. Hall Courte of Vertue f. 108v Like as the larke within the marlions foote from solace supplanted it were with me, if thou lord wert not my buckler and boote: at whose hand I hope saluacion to see.
1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 67 I suppose that al your sorrow cannot with such facilitie be supplanted, but that a few sparkles wil remaine.
1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1892) iii. 37 The Conqueror haueinge purpose to Supplante the Englishe nation out of England.
1604 M. Drayton Owle sig. Dv Supplant the Alps and lay them smooth and plaine.
1616 T. Gainsford Hist. Trebizond i. 40 If my Genius hauing hitherto protected my Fayth and Chastity, thinke it now time to supplant it with a necessary ill, I am content to lay open the records of your merit and loyaltie.
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iv. 106 This in ten daies more, would haue supplanted vs all with death.
1785 W. Cowper Task i. 609 War follow'd for revenge, or to supplant The envied tenants of some happier spot.
1804 Earl of Lauderdale Inq. Nature & Origin Public Wealth v. 348 The habits of a man possessed of small fortune..naturally suggests the desire of supplanting the labour he performs.
1862 H. Spencer First Princ. i. v. §32. 117 To supplant them by higher ones..is to set up vague and uninfluential motives for definite and influential ones.
1912 I. B. Cross Essent. Socialism iii. 24 Socialism..would supplant capitalism by a state of society in which there would be a democratically organized collective ownership.
1967 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 113 791/2 It would be foolishly mechanistic to attempt to supplant empathy and intuition by correlation coefficients and factorial analysis.
1995 D. Schmidtz in E. Millgram Varieties Pract. Reasoning (2001) xi. 248 The point is to embellish the means-end conception rather than to supplant it, in the process showing how even final ends can be subject to rational choice.
2007 S. Fox Country Houses J. F. Staub iii. 99/1 Staub's essay on the Latin Colonial style minimized the appropriateness of the Spanish Mediterranean style in order to supplant it with the Spanish Creole architecture of New Orleans.
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
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > reclaim [verb (transitive)] > clear land > remove roots
stockc1440
stock1458
extirp1490
displanta1492
supplant1549
stub1555
grub1558
to stump up1599
averruncate1623
extirpate1651
stump1791
1549 H. Latimer 1st Serm. before Kynges Grace sig. A.viv But he [sc. the preacher] must correcte and reproue him wyth the spirituall swerde fearynge no man settinge God only before his eyes vnder whom he hys a mynister to supplante and root vp all vyce and myschiefe by Goddes worde.
1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 209 The Normans..laboured by al means, to supplant the English [language], and to plante their owne language amongst vs.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 45 The tre supplanted, that first fro the roote seat is haled.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus i. i. 444 Dissemble all your griefes and discontents, You are but newlie planted in your Throne, Least then the people..supplant you for ingratitude. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. ii. 50 Trinculo, if you trouble him any more in's tale, By this hand, I will supplant some of your teeth. View more context for this quotation
1624 A. Darcie in tr. Originall of Idolatries To Rdr. sig. a3 Weedes, the which if they be not carefully, and dayly supplanted, will soone ouergrow the good plants.
1631 R. Bolton Instr. Right Comf. Affl. Consciences 78 As a..Staffe stucke lightly into the ground, which every..blast of winde [may] supplant, and overthrow.
1644 F. Quarles Barnabas & Boanerges 218 Foxes stroy it [sc. a vineyard], and the wild Bore supplants it.
1790 A. Rees Doctr. Christ 56 He had a manner of supplanting rooted prejudices without occasioning alarm.
1845 G. A. Perdicaris Greece of Greeks II. vi. 78 The only means that can put an end to this evil, is not hanging, but the removal of the causes, of supplanting the root of all evils by occupation.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > propagation of plants > [verb (intransitive)] > layer
lay1565
supplant1601
layer1831
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvii. xxiii. 537 Yet is there one manner besides of planting & maintaining Vines..: namely to supplant, that is, lay along upon the ground the whole stocke or maine bodie of a Vine.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Supplant (supplanto, a sub et planto), to plant underneath, to under-plant and set up a thing bending to the ground.
8.
a. transitive. Zoology and Botany. Of an animal or plant species, variety, etc.: to replace (another species, variety, etc.) in a geographical range, ecological niche, etc.
ΚΠ
1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species iii. 76 One species of charlock will supplant another, and so in other cases.
1884 Bot. Gaz. 9 127 Asclepias Cornuti..was supplanted by A. speciosa,..a closely allied species, rather more handsome though not so tall and robust.
1889 Auk 6 40 The Wood Thrushes of the valley are supplanted in a large measure by Hermit Thrushes.
1907 Irish Naturalist 16 306 The variety [sc. of an entomostracan] is plentiful in L. Mask, and apparently supplants the type.
1917 Bull. Torrey Bot. Club 44 106 At lower altitudes, introduced plants have supplanted largely the native species and have often become dominant.
2008 M. J. Benton Hist. Life vi. 101 Extinction isn't all bad. In fact, no species can last more than a few million years at most, before it is supplanted by other species or evolves into something else.
b. transitive. Animal Behaviour. Of an individual animal: to replace or displace (another individual), esp. by virtue of dominant status within a social group. Occasionally also intransitive.
ΚΠ
1937 Condor 39 55 Another thing I have witnessed on several occasions is the banishing of an aged bird of a pair which is no longer able to carry on and has been supplanted by a new and younger mate.
1971 H. Kummer Primate Societies iii. 59 Baboons sometimes supplant low-ranking group members from grass plants that have already been dug up.
1996 R. A. Zann Zebra Finch ix. 159 The ‘Wsst’ attack call..is often given by the dominant as it supplants.
2006 T. C. Grubb Ptilochronology vi. 81 She was chased or supplanted by the juvenile males less often than was either juvenile female.
Derivatives
suˈpplanted adj. (and n.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > supplanting or replacement > [adjective] > replaced
subrogate1427
replaced1656
supplanted1671
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1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 603 Now thou hast aveng'd Supplanted Adam. View more context for this quotation
1701 S. Wesley Hist. New Test. 52 Fears his Supplanted Brother's Arms, and sent, The Distant gath'ring Mischief to prevent.
1817 A. M. Porter Knight of St. John II. vii. 146 He was..assiduous to keep the rivals separate, till the resentment of the supplanted, should have time to cool into contempt.
1860 A. J. Davis Great Harmonia V. i. 23 Shall Jacob and his too indulgent mother conspire in a lie to purchase a perpetual blessing in the false name and habit of a supplanted brother..?
1915 Century Apr. 940/1 The supplanters make the Government an instrument of profit, just as did the supplanted.
1948 Art Bull. 30 106/2 The situation on the American continent is comparable: a new religion, a supplanted aesthetic tradition, and a people alien to both of them.
2009 C. Siebert Wauchula Woods Accord 12 For all of my recent travels among chimpanzees, both the supplanted ones here in the States and some of the few remaining wild ones in Africa;..this was the first time I'd been this close to a chimpanzee.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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