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/rˌiplˈeɪs/ /ərplˈeɪs/ Listen

verb

Replace v. t.

To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, or the like. "The earl... was replaced in his government."

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

To supply or substitute an equivalent for; as, to replace a lost document. "With Israel, religion replaced morality."

To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfull the end or office of. "This duty of right intention does not replace or supersede the duty of consideration."

To put in a new or different place. Note: The propriety of the use of replace instead of displace, supersede, take the place of, as in the third and fourth definitions, is often disputed on account of etymological discrepancy; but the use has been sanctioned by the practice of careful writers.

Replaced crystal (Crystallog.), a crystal having one or more planes in the place of its edges or angles.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Replace" Quotes from Famous Books

... takes is that of a rudimentary monarchy, established by election or general consent. A natural leader presents himself and he is instinctively obeyed. He may indeed be freely criticised and will not be screened by any pomp or traditional mystery; he will be easy to replace and every citizen will feel himself radically his equal. Yet such a state is at the beginnings of monarchy and aristocracy, close to the stage depicted in Homer, where pre-eminences are still obviously natural, although already over-emphasised by the force of ...

— The Life of Reason • George Santayana

... and nothing to see. When he had dug a hole several feet deep he carried an armful of heavy leather bags and deposited them in it. Then he went back to the wagon for another armful. The men, gray-faced as the gloom, watched him fill up the hole, carefully replace the sod, and ...

— The U.P. Trail • Zane Grey

... Temple, will be great. I shall never cease to regret you, nor will you find it easy to replace the friend of your youth. You may find friends of equal merit; you may esteem them equally; but few connexions form'd after five and twenty strike root like that early sympathy, which united us almost from infancy, and has increas'd to the very hour ...

— The History of Emily Montague • Frances Brooke

... the expeditions handling and getting out stone were added as promptly as practicable. In the spring of 1865 the firm filled a contract with the Cleveland and Toledo Railroad Company for stone with which to replace the wooden bridges along the line of the road. During the year the firm made extensive progress in developing its quarry, trenching to a greater depth than had yet been reached in any of the quarries, and obtaining a quality ...

— Cleveland Past and Present - Its Representative Men, etc. • Maurice Joblin

... that I had received into my belief, I thought that, as a private person may pull down his own house to build a finer, so I could not do better than remove them therefrom in order to replace them by sounder, or, after I should have adjusted them to the level of reason, to ...

— The Worlds Greatest Books, Volume XIII. - Religion and Philosophy • Various

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