v. rare. [UNDER-1 2, 4 a.] trans. † a. To supplant. Obs. b. (See later quots.) Hence † Underplainter, a supplanter. Obs.

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In OE., other senses of L. supplantare are rendered by underplantian.

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c. 1200.  Trin. Coll. Hom., 151. Iacob on boc leden is icleped on englisse under-plantere of fule custumes [L. supplantator viciorum],… and rithliche…, for he under-plantede [L. supplantavit] fule custumes … mid his clenliche liflode.

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1538.  Elyot, Supplantare,… to vnderplante or set a tree or vyne.

4

1598.  Florio, Sotto piantare, to vnder-plant, to vnderset, to vnderprop.

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1909.  Cent. Dict., Suppl., Underplant,… to plant (young trees) under an existing stand.

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