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Extirpation

noun
1.
Surgical removal of a body part or tissue.  Synonyms: ablation, cutting out, excision.
2.
The act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence.  Synonyms: deracination, excision.






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"Extirpation" Quotes from Famous Books



... Providence, in consideration of his few faithful servants, to spare the others yet a little longer, and give them a last chance of repentance and amendment; or, if this could not be, and their utter extirpation was inevitable, that the habitations of the devout might be exempted from the general destruction—might be places of refuge, as Zoar was to Lot. He concluded by earnestly exhorting those around him to keep constant watch upon themselves; not to ...
— Old Saint Paul's - A Tale of the Plague and the Fire • William Harrison Ainsworth

... that by inflicting prolonged pain on 100 rabbits you could discover a way to the extirpation of leprosy, or consumption, or locomotor ataxy, or of suicidal melancholia among human beings, dare you refuse to inflict that pain? Now I am quite unable to say that I dare. That sort of daring ...
— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 2 • Leonard Huxley

... Archbishop Whitgift," expresses it, "to kick against her Ecclesiastical Government." He expatriated himself several years, and returned fierce with the republican spirit he had caught among the Calvinists at Geneva, which aimed at the extirpation of the bishops. It was once more his fate to be poised against another rival, Whitgift, the Queen's Professor of Divinity. Cartwright, in some lectures, advanced his new doctrines; and these innovations soon raised a formidable party, "buzzing their conceits into the green heads of ...
— Calamities and Quarrels of Authors • Isaac D'Israeli

... their unwarrantable Entertainment of those Troops in this Kingdom, to the draining of his Majesty's Treasury, and Terror of his Catholick Subjects, then openly menaced by them the aforesaid Lords Justices with a Massacre and total Extirpation, their bloody Prosecution of that Menace, in the Slaughter of many innocent Persons, thereby affrighting and compelling others in despair of Protection, from their Government, to unite and take Arms for ...
— Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry • Thomas Davis

... for the ratification of this treaty, because I believe it will redound greatly to the glory of the two countries interested, to civilization, and to the extirpation of the institution ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Ulysses S. Grant • James D. Richardson


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