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单词 extirpation
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extirpationn.

/ɛkstəˈpeɪʃən/
Forms: Also 1500s exterpatione, extirpacion, extirpation, exturpacion.
Etymology: < Latin ex(s)tirpātiōn-em, noun of action < ex(s)tirpāre : see extirpate v. Compare French extirpation.
The action of extirpating.
1. The clearing (ground) of trees, etc. Cf. extirpate v. 1. Obsolete.
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).
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