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extirpation|ɛkstəˈpeɪʃən|
Also 6 exterpatione, extirpacion, -tion, exturpacion.
[ad. L. ex(s)tirpātiōn-em, n. of action f. ex(s)tirpāre: see extirpate v. Cf. F. extirpation.]
The action of extirpating.
†1. The clearing (ground) of trees, etc. Cf. extirpate v. 1. Obs.
1607Norden Surv. Dial. 217 The generall extirpation..of coppise grounds in Middlesex.
2. The action of rooting up trees or weeds; total destruction.
1675M. Clifford Hum. Reason in Phenix (1708) II. 532 The Extirpation of those Weeds. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Oak, Grubbing is only to be done where final extirpation is designed. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 180 The joint extirpation of woods and men. 1837Penny Cycl. VIII. 103/2 The..extirpation of couch grass is one of the first things which an experienced farmer sets himself to.
b. Surg. The operation of removing, by excision or the application of caustics, anything having an inward growth.
1706in Phillips (ed. Kersey). 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet 330 The difficulty of..Breathing, occasioned by Schirrosities of the Glands is not to be cur'd any other⁓wise than by Extirpation. 1818Art Preserv. Feet 52 A black corn..on extirpation..is found to have a black clot of blood at the lower extremity of the stem. 1875H. Walton Dis. Eye 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.
b. of an immaterial thing, e.g. heresy, a religion, vice, etc.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 56 Extirpation, that is, the pluckyng out of all maner of vyces by the rotes. 1602T. Fitzherbert Apol. 4 a, The extirpation of heresy. 1699Burnet 39 Art. vii. (1700) 95 The Jews were to fall under..an utter Extirpation. 1708Swift Abolit. Chr. Wks. 1755 II. i. 95 The extirpation of the gospel. 1794Gouv. Morris in Sparks Life & Writ. (1832) II. 411 It will become on both sides a war of extirpation. 1846McCulloch Acc. Brit. Empire (1854) I. 421 Extirpation of the smallpox. 1877J. A. Allen Amer. Bison 559 The extirpation of the buffalo.
Hence extirˈpationist, one who maintains a theory of extirpation.
1881Cornh. Mag. Sept. 340 The Teutonic extirpationists. |