Noah Webster
Supplant
SUPPLANT', verb transitive [Latin supplanto; sub and planta, the bottom of the foot.] To trip up the heels.
SUPPLANTed down he fell.
1. To remove or displace by stratagem; or to displace and take the place of; as, a rival supplants another in the affections of his mistress, or in the favor of his prince.
Suspecting that the courtier had supplanted the friend.
2. To overthrow; to undermine.