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extinctive, a.|ɛkˈstɪŋktɪv|
[f. L. type *exstinctīv-us, f. ex(s)tinguĕre (see extinguish). Cf. Fr. exstinctif.]
Tending, or having the power, to extinguish; causing annihilation. Const. of.
1600Swinburne Spousals (1686) 138 This Condition is..resolutive or extinctive that is to say..threatening a death or destruction to that which is born. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. iv. i, O ye hapless Two, mutually extinctive, the Beautiful and the Squalid, sleep ye well. 1871Contemp. Rev. XVI. 543 The third class of extinctive agencies..seems..to threaten many of the Malayan and Polynesian races. 1883Athenæum 10 Mar. 1/1 The Extinctive Effect of Free Water on the Rolling of Ships.
Hence † exˈtinctively adv., so as to be extinguished.
1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter iii. 4 If they [i.e. souls] die not extinctively, what becomes of them? |