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To displace; to overpower; to force away. 
If it be fond, call it a woman’s fear; 
Which fear, if better reasons can supplant, 
I will subscribe, and say, I wrong'd the duke. Shakspeare. 
SUPPLA'NTER, s. One that supplants; one that dis¬ 
places.—A treacherous supplanter and underminer of the 
peace of all families and societies. South. 
SUPPLA'NTING, s. The act of displacing or turning 
out.—That sad disunion and jealousy, those divisions and 
supplantings that were among the king’s own friends. 
Hoadley. 
SU'PPLE, adj. [souple , Fr.] Pliant; flexible. 
Will ye submit your necks, and choose to bend 
The supple knee? Milton. 
And sometimes went, and sometimes ran. 
With supple joints, as lively vigour led. Milton. 
Yielding; soft; not obstinate.—If punishment reaches 
not the mind, and makes not the will supple, it hardens the 
offender. Locke. —Flattering; fawning; bending.'—There 
is something so supple and insinuating in this absurd unna¬ 
tural doctrine, as makes it extremely agreeable to a prince’s 
ear. Addison. —That which makes supple. 
Each part deprived of supple government, 
Shall stiff, and stark, and cold appear, like death. 
Shakspeare. 
To SU'PPLE, v. a. To make pliant; to make soft; to 
make flexible.—Poultices allaying pain, drew down the hu¬ 
mours, and suppled the parts, thereby making the passages 
wider. Temple. —To make compliant. 
Knaves having by their own importunate suit. 
Convinc’d or suppled them, they cannot chuse. 
But they must blab. Shakspeare. 
To SU'PPLE, v. n. To grow soft; to grow pliant. 
The stones 
Did first the rigour of their kind expel, 
And suppled into softness as they fell. Dry den. 
SU'PPLELY, adv. Softly; mildly; pliantly. Unused. 
SU'PPLEMENT, s. [ supplement , Fr„ supplementum, 
Latin.]—Addition to any thing by which its defects are sup¬ 
plied.—His blood will atone for our imperfection, his righ¬ 
teousness he imputed in supplement to what is lacking in 
ours. Rogers. 
Instructive satire, true to virtue’s cause! 
. Thou shining supplement of public laws! Young. 
Store; supply. Not in use. 
We had not spent 
Our ruddie wine a ship-board; supplement 
Of large sort, each man to his vessel drew. Chapman. 
SUPPLEME'NTAL, or Supplementary, adj. Addi¬ 
tional; such as may supply the place of what is lost or 
wanting. —Supplemental acts of state were made to supply 
defects of laws; and so tonnage and poundage were collected. 
Clarendon. 
SU'PPLENESS, s. [souplesse, Fr.] Pliantness; flex¬ 
ibility ; readiness to take any form.—The fruit is of a 
pleasant taste, caused by the suppleness and gentleness 
of the juice, being that which maketh the boughs also so 
flexible. Bacon. —Readiness of compliance : facility.— 
Study gives strength to the mind, conversation grace; the 
first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness. Temple. 
SU'PPLETORY, adj. [from suppleo, Latin.] Brought 
in to fill up deficiencies —I have partly from Prynne, partly 
from my own conjecture, supplied the mutilated places as 
well as I could; but have included all such suppletory 
words in crotchets. Wharton. 
SU'PPLETORY s. [ suppletorium , Lat.] That which is 
to fill up deficiencies.—They invent suppletories to excuse 
an evil man. Bp. Taylor. 
SUPPLEAL, s. The act of supplying.—Society is 
preserved by mutual wants, the supplial of which causeth 
mutual happiness. Warburton. 
Vol. XXIII. No. 1602. 
SUPPLI'ANCE, s. Continuance. 
A violet in the youth of primy nature, 
Forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, 
The perfume and suppliance of a minute. Shakspeare. 
SU'PPLIANT, adj. [suppliant, Fr.] Entreating > 
beseeching; precatory; submissive.—-To bow and sue for 
grace with suppliant knee. Milton. 
SU'PPLIANT, s. An humble petitioner; one who begs 
submissively. 
Hourly suitors come: 
The east with incense and the west with gold, 
Will stand like suppliants to receive their doom. Dry den. 
SU'PPLIANTLY, adv. In a submissive manner. 
SU'PPLICANT, s. [supplicans, Lat.] One that en¬ 
treats or implores with great submission; an humble peti¬ 
tioner. 
SU'PPLICANT, adj. [supplicans, Lat.] Entreating; 
submissively petitioning.—[They] offered to this council 
their letters supplicant, confessing that they had sinned. 
Bp. Bull. 
To SU'PPLICATE, v. n. [supplier, Fr., supplico, Lat.] 
To implore; to entreat; to petition submissively and 
humbly.—Many things a man cannot with any comeliness 
say or do, a man cannot brook to supplicate or beg. 
Bacon. 
SUPPLICATION, s. [supplication, Fr.] Petition 
humbly delivered; entreaty. 
My mother bows, 
As if Olympus to a mole-hill should 
In supplication nod. Shakspeare. 
Petitionary worship; the adoration of a suppliant or 
petitioner. 
Bend thine ear 
To supplication; hear his sighs though mute. Milton. 
SU'PPLICATORY, adj. Petitionary.—If we except the 
Creeds, no part of the service was accompanied by music, 
which was not either of the supplicatory or thanksgiving 
species. Mason. 
SUPPLI'ER, s. One who supplies; one who makes up 
for an omission. 
To SUPPLY', v. a. [suppleo, Lat., suppleer, Fr.] To 
fill up as any deficiencies happen.—Out of the fry of these 
rakehell horseboys are their kearn supplied and maintained. 
Spenser. —To give something wanted ; to yield ; to afford. 
—They were princes that had wives, sons, and nephews ; 
and yet all these could not supply the comfort of friendship. 
Bacon. —To relieve with something wanted. 
Although I neither lend nor borrow, 
Yet, to supply the ripe wants of my friend, 
I’ll break a custom. Shakspeare. 
To serve instead of. 
Burning ships the banish’d sun supply. 
And no light shines but that by which men die. Waller. 
To give or bring, whether good or bad. 
Nearer care supplies 
Sighs to my breast, and sorrow to my eyes. 
Prior. 
To fill any room made vacant. 
The sun was set; and Vesper, to supply 
His absent beams, had lighted up the sky. Dryden. 
To accommodate; to furnish. 
While trees the mountain-tops with shades supply. 
Your honour, name, and praise shall never die. Dryden. 
SUPPLY', s. Relief of want; cure of deficiencies. 
Art from that fund each just supply provides, 
Works without show, and without pomp presides. Pope. 
SUPPLY’S PASSAGE, a channel of the South Pacific 
ocean, between Sirius island and Queen Charlotte’s island ; 
so named by Lieutenant Ball, who commanded the Supply 
store-ship in 1790. 
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