单词 | exterminatory |
释义 | exterminatoryadj. Tending to extermination; characterized by attempts at extermination. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > annihilating extinctivea1623 annihilating1629 mundicidious1647 erasive1657 uncreating1743 annihilative1764 exterminatory1790 exterminative1884 annihilationist1922 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 207 This exterminatory war. View more context for this quotation c1795 E. Burke Let. to R. Burke in Wks. IX. 444 Those terrible, confiscatory, and exterminatory periods. 1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters xvi. 393 That exterminatory code which hitherto had kept them in abeyance. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < adj.1790 |
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