Middle English Dictionary Entry
supplaunten v.
Entry Info
| Forms | supplaunten v. Also supplaunte, supplant(e(n, subplant; p.ppl. suppla(u)nted, subplauntid. |
| Etymology | L supplantāre, sub- & OF supplanter, var. of sosplanter. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To trip up (someone's steps), cause to stumble; also fig.; (b) to overthrow (sb.), defeat; also, pervert (justice); (c) to acquire the position and advantages of (sb.) through guile; dispossess (sb.); (d) to practice deception; deceive (sb.) [a few quots. may belong to (c)]; (e) of grape leaves: ?to prevent (grapes) from ripening.
Associated quotations
a
- c1350 MPPsalter (Add 17376)139.5 : Vnriȝtful men..to supplaunten [WBible(1) (Bod 959): supplanten; L supplantare] my ganginges.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ps.36.31 : His goyngis shul not ben supplauntid [Rolle Psalter (UC 64): supplantid].
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Prov.19.3 : Þe folie of a man supplauntiþ his goyngis.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)139.5 : Wickid men..thoght forto supplant my gatis.
b
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Job 8.3 : Wheþer god supplanteþ dom & þe almyȝty turneþ vp-so-doun þat is riȝtwis?
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ps.17.40 : Þou supplauntidest men rising in me vnder me.
- a1500(c1340) Rolle Psalter (UC 64)16.14 : Rise, lord, bifor cum him and supplant him..that is, make thaim vnspedy and kast thaim down.
c
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Gen.27.36 : Iustlich is þe name of hym clepid Iacob: he forsoþe haþ supplauntid [vr. subplauntid] me.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)2.345 : Þey poetes mene þat Iupiter gildede Saturnus, for he schulde not gete children to supplante hym.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)2.2369 : Thei that worchen be supplaunt, Yit wolden thei a man supplaunte And take a part of thilke plaunte Which he hath for himselve set.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)2.2453 : Agamenon Supplantede the worthi knyht Achilles of that swete wiht, Which named was Brexeida.
- ?a1425 Const.Masonry(1) (Roy 17.A.1)p.264 : Ny he schalnot supplante non other mon That hath ytake a werke hym vppon.
- a1450 Ben.Rule(2) (Vsp A.25)1381 : Þe subpriores so with pride A-gayns hir souerayn suld sone chide And gete oþer of hir assent To maynteyn hir in swilk entent And for to supplant hir souerayn.
- c1452 Capgr.Aug.Orders (Add 36704)145/4 : Iacob is as mech to say as a supplanter or a deceyuour, for he..supplanted his broþir.
- (1461) Paston2.234 : 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.
- (1470) Paston (EETS)1.367 : I haue vnderstand sith that ye departed that þer..mad to subplant you, [etc.].
- a1500(?a1400) SLChrist (Hrl 3909)5251 : The deul..supplauntide long time past our forme fadir out of his plas.
d
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Jer.9.4 : In eche brother of hym haue he not trost, for eche brother supplauntende shal supplaunte [WB(2): disseyuyng schal disseyue].
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Prov.4.16 : Slep is not caȝt of þem but if þei supplaunten [WB(2): but thei han disseyued].
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ecclus.3.26 : Manye forsoþe supplauntide [WB(2): hath disseyued] þe suspicioun of hem & in vanyte heeld doun þe wittis of þem.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)4.5891 : Auarice haþ his loggyng place Mid of her breste..Þat causeþ vertu raþest for to falle, Wher he abit, so he can supplaunte.
- (1445) ?Bokenham Claudian CS (Add 11814)269/143 : Lechery, the dowsett syn, which oonly abideth the doome And sentence of deceivable flessh, coude nat the supplante [L Nec te..fefellit].
e
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)253b/a : Whanne þe leues schal be kutte of, þe leef þat is wiþ grape schal not be remoeued..but þe oþere leues þat beþ ferre, ffor þise leues schulde supplaunte þe grapes.