单词 | extermination |
释义 | exterminationn. The action of exterminating. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > exile or state of > [noun] flemeOE exilec1330 flemingc1374 relegationc1425 sequestrationa1450 exulation1535 extermination1586 deportation1595 exportationa1610 displantation1614 elimination1623 discommonwealthing1647 ejection1655 self-exile1712 uprooting1775 expatriation1816 dissettlement1880 uprootedness1927 1586 J. Dee Jrnl. in True & Faithful Relation Spirits (1659) i. 430 The Lord Rosenberg..did..advise the Emperour of his error committed in our extermination. a1626 F. Bacon Advt. Holy Warre in Wks. (1740) III. 542 Displanting and extermination of people. 1662 T. Blount Boscobel (new ed.) ii. 31 His Majesties sufferings and forc'd extermination. 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 272 The slaughter of the Beast, or extermination of him out of Being. 2. a. Putting an end to, total extirpation; utter destruction. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > utter destruction or annihilation anientizement1429 deletiona1513 extincting1513 annihilment1526 exterminion1528 nulling1538 annihilation1541 exterminationc1550 nullity1555 annihilating1577 massacre1595 extinguishment1599 extinct1606 expunction1615 extinction1615 discreationa1628 nullificationa1631 nullifying1640 decreation1647 defacedness1668 extinguishinga1676 erasurea1794 exterminating1796 blotting out1808 naughting1913 wipeout1968 c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vii. 54 To succumb hyr haistylye, in the maist extreme exterminatione. 1679 Instrument 10 Forcible pursuit against such Persons, to the utter Extermination of them. 1791 H. More Estimate Relig. Fashionable World 140 The almost total extermination of religion. 1794 S. Williams Nat. & Civil Hist. Vermont 160 The savage aims at the utter extermination of his enemy. 1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 9 540 The Jennerian Society for the Extermination of the Small-pox. 1862 B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. II. iv. 141 One species prospers and multiplies by the extermination of another. 1867 E. O. M. Deutsch Lit. Remains (1874) 8 A new decree for the extermination of the Talmud. b. attributive, as extermination camp n. a concentration camp for the mass murder of human beings, applied esp. to the camps set up by Nazi Germany in the war of 1939–45. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > [noun] > place of confinement > concentration camp > type of death camp1849 extermination camp1945 1945 Atlantic July 55 Among the workers a threat of being sent to an extermination camp has its uses. 1952 C. P. Blacker Eugenics: Galton & After 146 We have witnessed the inhumanities of concentration and extermination camps. 1957 H. Roosenburg Walls came tumbling Down 10 The Jews..were sent to the extermination camps. 3. Mathematics. = elimination n. 5. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > algebra > [noun] > expression > equation > simplification of parabolism1699 extermination1753 elimination1798 rationalization1831 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. 1784 E. Waring in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 74 411 The extermination of all the terms. 1827 O. Gregory Hutton's Course Math. (ed. 9) I. 256 (note) Cubic equations..may usually be reduced to quadratics, by extermination. 4. Used as = termination n.; ending; decay. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [noun] > coming or bringing to an end > coming to an end or expiry endc1000 ush1463 outrunning1483 extermination1490 ish1502 expirement1526 concluding1530 expiration1562 closing1598 terminating1598 cessure1607 outpassing1609 expire1612 expiring1612 expiry1807 cesser1809 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos (1890) xxii. 80 The owle['s]..song termyneth in pyetous extermynacion. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) i. 15 Siklyik lordschips ande digniteis, hes incressing, declinatione, ande exterminatione. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1490 |
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