Also 5 subplant-. [a. OF. (mod.F.) supplantation (= It. supplantazione, Sp. suplantacion, Pg. supplantação), ad. late L. supplantātio, -ōnem, n. of action f. supplantāre to SUPPLANT.]
1. The dispossession or displacement of a person in a position, esp. by dishonorable means.
1390. Gower, Conf., I. 258. The Mitre with the Diademe He hath thurgh Supplantacion.
1430–40. Lydg., Bochas, III. iv. (MS. Bodl. 263), 155/2. Moordre doon for subplantacioun [ed. 1554 supplantacion] Requereth vengaunce.
1592. Timme, Ten Engl. Lepers, E j. Jacob by supplantation attained to a blessing.
1600. W. Watson, Decacordon (1602), 266. No iealousies nor suspitions, no enuie nor supplantations.
a. 1631. Donne, Serm. 1 Cor. xii. 3 (1640), 315. The sinister supplantations of pretenders to places in Court.
a. 1635. Naunton, Fragm. Reg. (Arb.), 49. Those that he relyed on, began … to be sensible of their own supplantation, and to project his.
1646. Owen, Country Ess., Wks. 1851, VIII. 66. Tried and proved ineffectual for the supplantation of truth.
1654. Whitelocke, Jrnl. Swed. Emb. (1772), II. 83. The … losse of their trade in Muscovia, by supplantation of the Dutch.
1751. Johnson, Rambler, No. 103, ¶ 13. No interest in view, and therefore no design of supplantation.
2. The supersession or displacement of one thing by another.
1608. Hieron, Defence, III. 122. If the sayd ordinance, after a supplantation or other decay therof, be agayne restored & reestablished.
c. 1819. Coleridge, Lit. Rem. (1836), II. 123. A complete suppression and habitual supplantation of immediate selfishness.
1837. W. A. Butler, Serm., Ser. II. xix. (1856), 283. That Church of perfect holiness shall be not the supplantation of the present, but its continuance.
† 3. Overthrow, downfall. Obs.
1617. French Jubile, 2. You display your greatnes, by the supplantation of a Tyrannie established in your State.
¶ 4. Illiterate or jocular for supplication.
1590. R. Wilson, Three Lords & Ladies Lond., H iij. Read my supplantation and my suit yee shall know.
1593. Lodge, W. Longbeard (Hunter. Club), 13. After the councell of some poore Cittizens, [the widow] put vppe a supplication or a supplantation (as the sillier sort of people called it).
