v. rare. [f. TRANS- + PLACE v.] trans. To change the place of, transpose; to oust from its position in favor of something else. (Also with the two things as obj.) Hence Transplacing vbl. sb.
1615. Lawson, Country Housew. Gard. (1626), 26. An artificiall transplacing or transposing of a twig, bud, or leafe, commonly called a graft.
1621. Ainsworth, Annot. Ps. xlii. 6. The Greeke readeth thus; the salvation of my face and my God; transplacing the Hebrew letters.
1641. Wilkins, Math. Magick, I. xi. (1648), 75. The transplacing of that Obelisk at Rome by Sixtus the first, was done in some few days by five or six hundred men.
1711. J. Greenwood, Eng. Gram., 217. Of Transposition or the transplacing of words and sentences.
c. 1810. Coleridge, in Lit. Rem. (1838), III. 205. ‘Not so killing but so secret’…, transplacing the sentences ‘as secret though not so killing.
1878. Villari, Machiavelli (1898), I. 16. In the ‘Decameron’ Latin periods already transform and transplace Italian periods.
