2. Adjective. (context: of a species) Locally extinct (though alive elsewhere). ¹
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Definition of Extirpated
1. extirpate [v] - See also: extirpate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Extirpated
Literary usage of Extirpated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1858)
"Pharyngeal Tumour extirpated.—Dr. LA DUGAS records (Southern Hed. and Surg. Journ.
... The entire mass thus extirpated constituted one distinct tumour; ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"BIRDS RECENTLY extirpated. From the consideration of Fossil Birds we are naturally
led to treat of those which have been extirpated in modern times, ..."
3. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"... extirpated WEST INDIAN BIRDS. BY AUSTIN H. CLARK. IN THE present paper I have
brought together all the evidence as to the existence in former years of ..."
4. Mornings in the College Chapel: Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal by Francis Greenwood Peabody (1898)
"... LV CAPACITY extirpated BY DISUSE Matthew xxv. 29. \HE parable of the talents
begins with its splendid encouragement to those who have done their best, ..."
5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"... and each antagonist, alternately vanquished and victorious, has extirpated
some ancient errors, and established some interesting truths. ..."
6. The Journal of Foreign Medical Science and Literature edited by Samuel Emlen (1818)
"Account of a Large Wen, successfully extirpated BY JOHN SYNG DORSEY, MO L From
the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. I. New Series. ..."
7. Outlines of Systematic Theology: Designed for the Use of Theological Students by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1908)
"... or Theory of Gradually extirpated Depravity. This holds that, in his incarnation,
Christ took human nature as it was in Adam, not before the Fall, ..."
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