15 March 2017
extirpate
[ek-ster-peyt, ik-stur-peyt]
verb (used with object), extirpated, extirpating.
1. to remove or destroy totally; do away with; exterminate.
2. to pull up by or as if by the roots; root up:
to extirpate an unwanted hair.
Origin of extirpate
Latin
1530-1540; < Latin ex (s) tirpātus plucked up by the stem (past participle of ex (s) tirpāre), equivalent to ex- ex-1+ stirp- (stem of stirps) stem + -ātus -ate1
Related forms
extirpation, noun
extirpative, adjective
extirpator, noun
unextirpated, adjective
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Examples from the Web for extirpate
Historical Examples
After the extirpation of the Indians, the labor of African slaves was introduced.
Continental Monthly, Volume 5, Issue 4
Various
He then and there determined to devote his life to the extirpation of heresy.
An Introduction to the History of Western Europe
James Harvey Robinson
It makes it the religious duty of Christians to legislate for the extirpation of the former and the punishment of the latter.
Handbook of Freethought
Various
extirpation has been the watchword with which Caucasian Christianity has gone about the world.
The Conquest of Fear
Basil King
This wary politician was too sagacious to propose what he had at heart—the extirpation of the hierarchy!
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3)
Isaac Disraeli
Hundreds of the ablest judges were selected for the extirpation of this crime.
The Necessity of Atheism
Dr. D.M. Brooks
In our own neighbourhood, if the war and extirpation goes on, he will soon be a memory only.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood
J. Conway Walter
But the extirpation was not so thorough as at first appeared.
The Gist of Japan
R. B. Peery
What prolific sources of disease are not those mineral and vegetable poisons, that have been introduced for its extirpation !
Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages
William Andrus Alcott
Hundt did not stand alone in his advocacy of the extirpation of the Jews.
History of the Jews, Vol. V (of 6)
Heinrich Graetz
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Today’s quote
Never deny the babies their Christmas! It is the shining seal set upon, a year of happiness. Let them believe in Santa Claus, or St. Nicholas; or Kriss Kringle, or whatever name the jolly Dutch saint bears in your religion.
– Mary Virginia Terhune
On this day
15 March 44BC – Roman dictator and self-declared Emperor of Rome, Julius Caesar, stabbed to death on the Ides of March by Marcus Junus Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and other Roman senators. Julius Caesar’s assassination was one of the events that marked the transition from the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire.
15 March 270 – birth of St Nikolaos of Myra. Greek bishop of Myra (in what is now Turkey). He would often secretly leave gifts for people. The most famous story of his gift-giving related to a father who couldn’t afford the dowry for his three daughters, which would mean they’d remain unmarried. Legend has it that St Nikolaos secretly threw three bags of gold coins through the window one night so that there would be enough dowry for each. He became the model on which Santa Claus was based. Died 6 December 343.
15 March 1892 – founding of the English football club, Liverpool F.C.
15 March 1916 – President Woodrow Wilson sends thousands of troops into Mexico to capture the Mexican revolutionary, Pancho Villa.
15 March 1985 – the first internet domain name is registered, Symbolics.com.
15 March 1990 – Mikael Gorbachev elected as first president of the Soviet Union and held the office until 25 December 1991. He was the only person to occupy the office. He resigned as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on 24 August 1991 following a coup by hard-line members of the CPSU. During the coup, Gorbachev’s Presidency was briefly usurped from 19 August to 21 August 1991 by the Vice-President, Gennady Yanayev. On 8 December 1991, in a legally questionable move, the Soviet Union was dissolved with the agreement of Boris Yeltsin, Leonid Kravchuk and Stanislav Shushkevich, respective leaders of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, creating the Commonwealth of Independent States (or Russian Commonwealth), whose leaders governed their own states.