extirp
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Compare French extirper and Latin extirpāre. Doublet of extirpate.
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Verb
[edit]extirp (third-person singular simple present extirps, present participle extirping, simple past and past participle extirped)
- (transitive, obsolete) To extirpate (something).
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 73, column 2:
- Yes in good ſooth, the vice is of a great kindred; it is vvell allied, but it is impoſſible to extirpe it quite, Frier, till eating and drinking be put dovvne.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “extirp”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.