Re-place′, v. t.
v. t. [imp. & p. p. REPLACED (re-plast′); p. pr. & vb. n. REPLACING.] [Prefix re and place; Fr. replacer.]
Sense 1. To place again; to restore to a former place, position, condition, and the like.
The earl . . . was replaced in his government. Bacon.
Sense 2. To restore in a place that was vacated; to refund; to repay; as, to replace a sum of money borrowed.
Sense 3. To supply or substitute an equivalent for; as, to replace a lost document.
Sense 4. To take the place of; to supply the want of; to fulfill the end or office of.
This duty of right intention does not replace or supersede the duty of consideration. Whewell.
Sense 5. To put in a new or different place. [Rare.]
Replaced crystal (Crystallog.), a crystal having one or more planes in the place of its edges or angles.