Dictionary: DIS-PLACE' – DIS-PLEAS'ING-NESS

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DIS-PLACE', v.t. [dis and place; Fr. deplacer; Arm. diblaçza.]

  1. To put out of the usual or proper place; to remove from its place; as, the books in the library are all displaced.
  2. To remove from any state, condition, office, or dignity; as, to displace an officer of the revenue.
  3. To disorder. You have displaced the mirth. – Shak.

DIS-PLAC'ED, pp.

Removed from the proper place; deranged; disordered; removed from an office or state.

DIS-PLACE'MENT, n. [Fr. deplacement.]

The act of displacing; the act of removing from the usual or proper place, or from a state, condition, or office. The displacement of the centers of the circles. – Asiat. Researches, v. 185. Unnecessary displacement of funds. – Hamilton's Rep. ii.

DIS-PLA'CEN-CY, n. [L. displicentia, from displiceo, to displease; dis and placeo, to please.]

Incivility; that which displeases or disobliges. – Decay of Piety.

DIS-PLAC'ING, ppr.

Putting out of the usual or proper place; removing from an office, state, or condition.

DIS-PLANT', v.t. [dis and plant.]

  1. To pluck up or to remove a plant.
  2. To drive away or remove from the usual place of residence; as, to displant the people of a country. – Bacon.
  3. To strip of inhabitants; as, to displant a country. – Spenser.

DIS-PLANT-A'TION, n.

  1. The removal of a plant.
  2. The removal of inhabitants or resident people. – Ralegh.

DIS-PLANT'ED, pp.

  1. Removed from the place where it grew, as a plant.
  2. Removed from the place of residence; applied to persons.
  3. Deprived of inhabitants; applied to a country.

DIS-PLANT'ING, n.

Removal from a fixed place.

DIS-PLANT'ING, ppr.

Removing, as a plant.

DIS-PLAT', v.t. [dis and plat.]

To untwist; to uncurl. – Hakewill.

DIS-PLAY', n.

  1. An opening or unfolding; an exhibition of any thing to the view.
  2. Show; exhibition; as, they make a great display of troops; a great display of magnificence.

DIS-PLAY', v.i.

To talk without restraint; to make a great show of words. – Shak.

DIS-PLAY', v.t. [Fr. deployer, and deploy is the same word. It is a different orthography of deplier, to unfold; Arm. displega; Sp. desplegar; It. spiegare; dis and Fr. plier, Sp. plegar, It. piegare, to fold; L. plico, W. plygu, Gr. πλεκω; and απλοος, απλοω, to unfold, may be from the same root.]

  1. Literally, to unfold: hence, to open; to spread wide; to expand. The northern wind his wings did broad display. – Spenser.
  2. To spread before the view; to show; to exhibit to the eyes, or to the mind; to make manifest. The works of nature display the power and wisdom of the Supreme Being. Christian charity displays the effects of true piety. A dress, simple and elegant, displays female taste and beauty to advantage.
  3. To carve; to dissect and open. He carves, displays, and cuts up to a wonder. – Spectator.
  4. To set to view ostentatiously. – Shak.
  5. To discover. [Not in use.] – Spenser.
  6. To open; to unlock. [Not used.] – B. Jonson.

DIS-PLAY'ED, pp.

Unfolded; opened; spread; expanded; exhibited to view; manifested.

DIS-PLAY'ER, n.

He or that which displays.

DIS-PLAY'ING, ppr.

Unfolding; spreading; exhibiting; manifesting.

DIS-PLEAS'ANCE, n. [Fr. deplaisance.]

Anger; discontent. [Not used.] – Spenser.

DIS-PLEAS'ANT, a. [displez'ant. See Displease.]

Unpleasing; offensive; unpleasant. [The latter word is generally used.]

DIS-PLEASE', v.t. [disple'ze. dis and please.]

  1. To offend; to make angry, sometimes in a slight degree. It usually expresses less than anger, vex, irritate and provoke. Applied to the Almighty in Scripture, it may be considered as equivalent to anger. God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel. – 1 Chron. xxi.
  2. To disgust; to excite aversion in; as, acrid and rancid substances displease the taste.
  3. To offend; to be disagreeable to. A distorted figure displeases the eye.

DIS-PLEAS'ED, pp.

Offended; disgusted.

DIS-PLEAS'ED-NESS, n.

Displeasure; uneasiness. – Mountague.

DIS-PLEAS'ING, a.

Offensive to the eye, to the mind, to the smell, or to the taste; disgusting; disagreeable.

DIS-PLEAS'ING, ppr.

Giving offense.

DIS-PLEAS'ING-NESS, n.

Offensiveness; the quality of giving some degree of disgust.