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单词 extinguishment
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extinguishmentn.

/ɛkˈstɪŋɡwɪʃmənt/
Etymology: < extinguish v. + -ment suffix.
The action of extinguishing; the fact of being extinguished; = extinction n.
1.
a. The quenching (of fire, light, anything burning or shining). Cf. extinguish v. 1.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [noun] > extinguishing light
extinguishment1509
extinctiona1513
extinct1606
extincture1609
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > extinguishing fire > [noun]
bleschingc1440
sleckingc1440
slockeningc1440
quenchoura1475
extinguishment1509
extinctiona1513
extincture1609
quench?1611
fire-extinguishing1840
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure xliii. iv Evermore, without extinguyshment, In burnyng tongues he shall be permanent.
1655 E. Terry Voy. E.-India 357 Lamps..which have burned without extinguishment from many foregoing generations.
1724 T. Richers tr. Hist. Royal Geneal. Spain 326 To endeavour the Extinguishment of those Flames.
1870 Daily News 19 Aug. 6 The men skilled in extinguishment far away.
b. A means of extinguishing. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > coldness > extinguishing fire > [noun] > fire-fighting > a substance or apparatus for extinguishing
quench-fire1657
extinguishment1667
1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 58 Application of remora's and extinguishments, to both wind and fire.
2. transferred and figurative. Cf. extinguish v. 2.
ΚΠ
?1504 S. Hawes Example of Vertu sig. hh.i Theyr payne haue none extinguysshement.
1546 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. viii. 218 The..vtter extingguysshement of the seyd grugge & dyspleasure.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 62 When once the wound beginneth to be purple, greene, or blacke, it is a signe..of the extinguishment of the venome.
a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) ii. xxvi. 70 An extinguishment of love.
1850 L. Hunt Autobiogr. (1860) x. 179 The final extinguishment of the king's reason.
3.
a. The putting a total end to (something), blotting out of existence; suppression (of an institution).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > [noun]
revoking1395
revocationc1400
cassationc1425
annulling1449
reclamationa1475
annulmenta1492
retractation1531
disannulling1533
abrogation1535
cancellation1535
retraction1536
extinguishment1537
undoing1540
abrenunciation1557
revocating1570
reversement1572
revokement1573
annihilation1579
revocatory1579
annullity1586
retroversion1587
rescission1594
recall1597
recision1606
disannulment1611
repeal1612
rasurea1616
cancelment1621
retractinga1624
cancelling1631
extinction1651
circumduction1726
cassing1844
recallment1845
cancel1884
1537 Acts Irel. 28 Hen. VIII c. xiii Statutes..made for the..extinguishment out of this land of the pretended power of the Bishop of Rome.
1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 32 The extinguishment of anye one of them [foure complexions] is the destruction of the bodye.
a1648 Ld. Herbert Life Henry VIII (1649) 397 That for extinguishments of all Ambiguities and doubts, it may be enacted, etc.
1741 T. Robinson Common Law of Kent v. 66 A Total Extinguishment of the Custom.
1865 Reader 2 Sept. 253/2 Munitions of war, which not only influenced banefully..the fortunes of Prince Charlie, but led..to their final extinguishment.
b. The putting an end to (a contract, right, etc.); abolition (of a law, custom, †tax). In Law also spec. ‘the annihilation of a collateral interest, or the supersedure of one interest by another and greater interest’ (Wharton Law Lex.).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > cancellation, revocation > [noun] > of decree, law, etc.
extinguishment1528
renversinga1614
supersession1790
denunciation1885
society > law > rule of law > illegality > [noun] > legal invalidity or faultiness > annulment or abrogation
reversing?a1425
repealing1431
abatementc1436
cancellingc1440
annullation1449
defeasance1456
voidance1488
reversal1489
reduction1496
repeal1503
extinguishment1528
disannulling1533
abrogation1535
obrogation1535
unplacing1554
nullity1555
reversement1572
reclaim1604
disaffirmancea1626
avoidance1628
rescinding1638
cassating1647
vacating1648
voiding1649
defease1650
annulment1651
unlawing1651
defeat1657
vacuating1684
peremption1726
invalidation1771
rescindment1783
supersession1790
disaffirmation1827
disenactment1859
discharge1892
1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xxv A relese shall enure by way of extynguysshment.
1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 10 §1 The..extinguishment of all suche subtill practised feoffementes.
1554 in Depositions, etc. (Surtees Soc. No. 21) 57 For the..extinguishment of a mariage solempnized betwixt them in their infancies.
1683 T. Hunt Def. Charter London 36 Charged with the extinguishment of many excellent Laws.
1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages I. iii. 307 A suspension but not extinguishment of rights.
1886 Law Rep.: Weekly Notes 27 Feb. 35/2 The accounts..were limited to the period before Michaelmas, 1881, the time from which the extinguishment took effect.
c. The full discharge, ‘wiping out’ (of a debt or obligation).
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > payment > payment of debt > [noun]
satisfaction1398
acquittance?a1400
amortizement1439
financec1460
discharge1534
clearing1579
settlement1729
discharging1735
settling1761
liquidation1786
extinguishment1796
amortization1810
service1817
amortizing1840
extinction1845
clearance1858
pay-off1864
admortization1903
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 266 To provide for the extinguishment of the existing debt.
1847 C. G. Addison Treat. Law Contracts (1883) ii. iv §i. 664 The extinguishment of the principal obligation necessarily involving in it the discharge of the surety.
1868 J. E. T. Rogers Man. Polit. Econ. (1876) iv. 7 Reciprocal extinguishment of obligations.
d. The cutting off, putting an end to (a family, race, etc.); the fact of becoming extinct. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > non-existence > [noun] > ceasing to exist > of a family, race, species, etc.
extinguishment1539
extinction1602
extinct1606
1539 R. Taverner Garden of Wysdom sig. B.iiiv Syngle lyfe hathe these incommodyties..extinguyshement of bloude, a straunger to be thyne heire.
1612 J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 210 Rebellion, wherein he perished himselfe, and made a final extinguishment of his house and honour.
1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 114 By the extinguishment of the Picts, it reached also unto Tweed.
e. Annihilation (of the soul). Obsolete.
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
1599 J. Davies Nosce Teipsum 62 When deaths forme appeares, she [sc. the soul] feareth not An vtter quenching, or extinguishment.
1625 J. Ussher Answer to Jesuite 327 A most absolute extinguishment as well of the soule as of the body.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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