displant Meaning, Definition & Usage

Dis*plant" transitive verb
Etymology
Pref. dis- + plant: cf. OF. desplanter, F. déplanter.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Diplanted; present participle & verbal noun Displanting
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913