单词 | extirpation |
释义 | extirpationn. The action of extirpating. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > [noun] > clearing land ridding1347 grubbingc1440 stubbing1445 stockingc1460 assart1534 clotting1601 extirpation1607 shrubbing1611 moling1617 averruncation1656 twitching1799 underbrushing1838 clearance1851 screefing1919 reslashing1934 underscrubbing1935 swidden1955 1607 J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue 217 The generall extirpation..of coppise grounds in Middlesex. 2. a. The action of rooting up trees or weeds; total destruction. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > [noun] > rooting out or up rooting1533 extirpation1675 uprooting1775 uprootal1861 1675 M. Clifford Treat. Humane Reason in Phenix (1708) II. 532 The Extirpation of those Weeds. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Oak Grubbing is only to be done where final extirpation is designed. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 180 The joint extirpation of woods and men. 1837 Penny Cycl. VIII. 103/2 The..extirpation of couch grass is one of the first things which an experienced farmer sets himself to. b. Surgery. The operation of removing, by excision or the application of caustics, anything having an inward growth. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > removal by surgical means > [noun] ablation?a1425 aphaeresis1688 extirpation1706 extraction1799 1706 in Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iii. 330 The difficulty of..Breathing, occasion'd by Schirrosities of the Glands, is not to be cur'd any otherwise than by Extirpation. 1818 Art of preserving Feet 52 A black corn..on extirpation..is found to have a black clot of blood at the lower extremity of the stem. 1875 H. Walton Pract. Treat. Dis. Eye (ed. 3) 110 Operations on the eyeball, abscission, and extirpation. 3. The action of extirpating or rooting out; extermination: a. of a nation, family, sect, species, etc. ΚΠ 1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. 39 Articles (1700) vii. 95 The Jews were to fall under..an utter Extirpation. 1794 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 411 It will become on both sides a war of extirpation. 1877 J. A. Allen Amer. Bisons 559 The extirpation of the buffalo. b. of an immaterial thing, e.g. heresy, a religion, vice, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > eradication or extirpation excidion1490 excision1490 extirpation1526 extirping1535 eradication1548 outrooting1562 eradicatinga1660 extirpating1670 deracinationc1800 liquidation1925 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Piv Extirpacion, that is, the pluckyng out of all maner of vices by the rotes. 1602 T. Fitzherbert Apol. 4 a The extirpation of heresy. 1711 J. Swift Argument abolishing Christianity in Misc. Prose & Verse 181 The Extirpation of the Gospel. 1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire I. ii. 419 Extirpation of the small-pox. Derivatives extirˈpationist n. one who maintains a theory of extirpation. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > eradication or extirpation > one who or that which eradicates or extirpates extirperc1503 voiderc1528 rooter1560 disperser1580 depeller1597 eradicator1659 extirpator1706 dispeller1717 uprooter1828 dispellent1869 extirpationist1881 1881 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 340 The Teutonic extirpationists. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1526 |
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