单词 | extinctive |
释义 | extinctiveadj. Tending, or having the power, to extinguish; causing annihilation. Const. of. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > annihilating extinctivea1623 annihilating1629 mundicidious1647 erasive1657 uncreating1743 annihilative1764 exterminatory1790 exterminative1884 annihilationist1922 a1623 H. Swinburne Treat. Spousals (1686) 138 This Condition is..resolutive or extinctive that is to say..threatening a death or destruction to that which is born. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. iv. i. 239 O ye hapless Two, mutually extinctive, the Beautiful and the Squalid, sleep ye well. 1871 Contemp. Rev. 16 543 The third class of extinctive agencies..seems..to threaten many of the Malayan and Polynesian races. 1883 Athenæum 10 Mar. 1/1 The Extinctive Effect of Free Water on the Rolling of Ships. DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adverb] ruinouslyc1450 perniciously1533 consuminglya1542 wastefully?1567 locust-like1596 fatallya1616 extinctively1633 destructively1661 shatteringly1818 destroyingly1820 corrosively1831 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (iii. 4) 1171 If they [sc. souls] die not, extinctively, what becomes of them? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < adj.a1623 |
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