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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Display \Dis*play"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Displayed}; p. pr &
vb n. {Displaying}.] [OE. displaien desplaien OF
despleier desploier F. d['e]ployer; pref. des- (L. dis-) +
pleier ploier, plier, F. ployer, plier, to fold, bend, L.
plicare See {Ply}, and cf {Deploy}, {Splay}.]
1. To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out to
spread.
The northern wind his wings did broad display.
--Spenser.
2. (Mil.) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into
line --Farrow.
3. To spread before the view; to show to exhibit to the
sight, or to the mind; to make manifest.
His statement . . . displays very clearly the actual
condition of the army. --Burke.
4. To make an exhibition of to set in view conspicuously or
ostentatiously; to exhibit for the sake of publicity; to
parade.
Proudly displaying the insignia of their order
--Prescott.
5. (Print.) To make conspicuous by large or prominent type
6. To discover; to descry. [Obs.]
And from his seat took pleasure to display The city
so adorned with towers. --Chapman.
Syn: To exhibit; show manifest; spread out parade; expand;
flaunt.
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