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单词 extinctive
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extinctiveadj.

/ɛkˈstɪŋktɪv/
Etymology: < Latin type *exstinctīvus , < ex(s)tinguĕre (see extinguish v.). Compare French exstinctif.
Tending, or having the power, to extinguish; causing annihilation. Const. of.
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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.

Derivatives

exˈtinctively adv. Obsolete so as to be extinguished.
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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).
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