Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.v:

The wearie Traueiler, wandring that way, / Therein did often quench his thristy heat, / And then by it his wearie limbes display , / Whiles creeping slomber made him to forget / His former paine [...].

To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.

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* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

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To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.

(Shakespeare)

(military) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.

(Farrow)

(printing, dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.

(obsolete) To discover; to descry.

* Chapman

And from his seat took pleasure to display / The city so adorned with towers.

Verb

(replac)

To restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like.

When you've finished using the telephone, please replace the handset.

The earl...was replaced in his government. — .

To refund; to repay; to restore; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.

You can take what you need from the petty cash, but you must replace it tomorrow morning.

To supply or substitute an equivalent for.

I replaced my car with a newer model.

The batteries were dead so I replaced them

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Next Wednesday, four women and 15 men on the Crown Nominations Commission will gather for two days of prayer and horsetrading to replace Rowan Williams as archbishop of Canterbury.

To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfill the end or office of.

This security pass replaces the one you were given earlier.

This duty of right intention does not replace or supersede the duty of consideration. — .

To demolish a building and build an updated form of that building in its place.

(rare) To place again.

(rare) To put in a new or different place.