extirpate Copy link Outline 1. exstirpo, 1 (to take up by the roots)2. excīdo, di, sum, 3 (by cutting or other violent means)3. very oft. expr. by stirps, gens, gĕnus, with a verb • extirpate: 1. exstirpo, 1 (to take up by the roots): oft. fig.: to e. vices, vitia ex., Cic.: v. to eradicate. 2. excīdo, di, sum, 3 (by cutting or other violent means): to e. brambles from fields, rubos arvis ex., Quint. 9, 4, 5: to e. anger (from the mind), iram ex., Sen. 3. very oft. expr. by stirps, gens, gĕnus, with a verb: this source of evil will be utterly e.d, exstinguetur atque delebitur stirps ac semen malorum, Cic. Cat. 1, 12, 33: utterly to e. superstition, superstitionis stirpes omnes ejicere, Cic.: they (the drones) are not to be absolutely e.d, nec ad occidionem gens interimenda est, Col. 9, 15, ad init.: v. to destroy.
EXTIRPATE Copy link • EXTIRPATERoot out (PROP.), Vid: IMPROPR., exstirpare: delere: exstinguere: excidere: thoroughly, utterly, alicujus rei radices evellere et extrahere penitus; omnes alicujus rei stirpes ejicere; aliquid funditus tollere. (The words are found in this connection and order.) exstirpare et funditus tollere (e.g., superstition; the last also of faults, passions, etc.); e natura rerum evellere (annihilate): to extirpate a nation, gentem penitus excidere: gentem ad internecionem interimere; his brother’s male offspring, stirpem fratris virilem interimere; a family, *domum vacuam facere: stirpem interimere: domum cum stirpibus eruere (after Verg., Georg., 2, 209); the drones, universorum fucorum genus ad occidionem perducere; all human feeling in anybody’s mind, omnem humanitatem ex animo alicujus exstirpare.