Supplantation
(Sup`plan*ta"tion) n. [Cf. F. supplantation, L. supplantatio hypocritical deceit.] The act
of supplanting or displacing.
Habitual supplantation of immediate selfishness.
Cloeridge. Supplanter
(Sup*plan"ter) n. One who supplants.
Supple
(Sup"ple) a. [OE. souple, F. souple, from L. supplex suppliant, perhaps originally, being the
knees. Cf. Supplicate.]
1. Pliant; flexible; easily bent; as, supple joints; supple fingers.
2. Yielding compliant; not obstinate; submissive to guidance; as, a supple horse.
If punishment . . . makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.
Locke. 3. Bending to the humor of others; flattering; fawning; obsequious. Addison.
Syn. — Pliant; flexible; yielding; compliant; bending; flattering; fawning; soft.
Supple
(Sup"ple), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suppled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Suppling ]
1. To make soft and pliant; to render flexible; as, to supple leather.
The flesh therewith she suppled and did steep.
Spenser. 2. To make compliant, submissive, or obedient.
A mother persisting till she had bent her daughter's mind and suppled her will.
Locke.
They should supple our stiff willfulness.
Barrow. Supple
(Sup"ple), v. i. To become soft and pliant.
The stones . . .
Suppled into softness as they fell.
Dryden. Supple-chapped
(Sup"ple-chapped`) a. Having a limber tongue. [R.] "A supple-chapped flatterer."
Marston.
Supple-jack
(Sup"ple-jack`) n. (Bot.) (a) A climbing shrub (Berchemia volubilus) of the Southern United
States, having a tough and pliable stem. (b) A somewhat similar tropical American plant (Paullinia Curassavica); also,
a walking stick made from its stem.
He was in form and spirit like a supple-jack, . . . yielding, but tough; though he bent, he never broke.
W. Irving. This name is given to various plants of similar habit in different British colonies.
