different between misplant vs displant

English

Etymology

mis- +? plant

Pronunciation

• (General American, verb) IPA^(key): /m?s?plænt/
• (General American, noun) IPA^(key): /?m?s?plænt/

Verb

misplant (third-person singular simple present misplants, present participle misplanting, simple past and past participle misplanted)

1. (transitive) To plant badly or wrongly.
   • 1692, John Dryden, Cleomenes, the Spartan Hero, a Tragedy

     Thou art only misplanted in a base degenerate soil.

Noun

misplant (plural misplants)

1. Something that has been misplanted.
2. A planting that has failed.

Anagrams

• implants

English

Etymology

dis- +? plant

Verb

displant (third-person singular simple present displants, present participle displanting, simple past and past participle displanted)

1. (transitive, archaic) To remove anything from where it has been planted or placed; to drive a person from their home.
   • c. 1594, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene 3,^[1]

     […] Hang up philosophy!

     Unless philosophy can make a Juliet,

     Displant a town, reverse a prince’s doom,

     It helps not, it prevails not: talk no more.

   • 1625, Francis Bacon, “Of Plantations” in Essays, London: H. Herringman et al., 1691, p. 123,^[2]

     I like a Plantation in a pure Soyl, that is, where People are not Displanted, to the end, to Plant others; for else it is rather an Extirpation, than a Plantation.

   • 1740, William Oldys, The Life of Sir Walter Ralegh, London, p. 79,^[3]

     But the Ships, in which this second Colony was transported, had not been many Days returned into England, before we find Ralegh’s Thoughts diverted, for a while, from planting in a foreign Country, and engaged upon Schemes of displanting rather those powerful Enemies who were preparing to root themselves in his own.

   • 1844, Court of Common Pleas, May v. Taylor, 3 June, 1843 in The Jurist, London: V. & R. Stevens & G.S. Norton, Volume 7, Part 2, p. 515,^[4]

     […] with respect to the particular question of five acres of ground being displanted of hops, the jury knew that the peculiar blight, called the wire-worm, was contagious, and that since it had got into some of the plants, the best thing that could be done for the rest of the garden, was to grub up the bine which was injured.

Synonyms

• displace

Translations

References

• Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 131