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Read my supplantation, and my suit ye shall know, Even for God's sake above, and three ladies' sakes below.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by Hazlitt, William Carew

Rat, common, general dispersion of, a consequence of superior cunning; supplantation of the native in New Zealand, by the European rat; common, said to be polygamous; numerical proportion of the sexes in.

From The Descent of Man by Darwin, Charles