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Definition of Extinct

1. Adjective. No longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives. "Extinct laws and customs"

2. Adjective. (of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive. "An extinct volcano"

3. Adjective. Being out or having grown cold. "The fire is out"

Definition of Extinct

1. a. Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano.

2. v. t. To cause to be extinct.

Definition of Extinct

1. Adjective. (dated) Extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc.) ¹

2. Adjective. No longer used; obsolete, discontinued. ¹

3. Adjective. No longer in existence; having died out. ¹

4. Adjective. (vulcanology) No longer actively erupting. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Extinct

1. to extinguish [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: extinguish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Extinct

exterritorial exterritoriality extersion exthorio extill extillation extillations extilled extilling extills

extimulate extimulated extimulates extimulating extimulation extinct (current term) extinct language extinct languages extinct volcano extinct volcanoes

extincted extincting extinction extinction angle extinction coefficient extinction factor extinction oblique extinction parallel extinction symmetrical extinctionism

Literary usage of Extinct

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"It contains the following extinct families. Farn. 4. .... extinct; Silurian and Devonian. The last two families arc ..."

2. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, Or, The Preservation of by Charles Darwin (1882)
"In some of the most recent beds, though undoubtedly of high antiquity if measured by years, only one or two species are extinct, and only one or two are new ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1874)
"Description of the Living and extinct Races of Gigantic Land-Tortoises. ... All these species appear to have become extinct in modern times. 2. ..."

4. Selected Cases on the Law of Property in Land by William Albert Finch (1904)
"Estate in tail after possibility of issue extinct.1 b. Estates by the marital right. BABB P. PERLEY.1 i MAINE, 6. — 1820. [Reported herein at p. 27.] 'Lit. ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"D. plorer, Don Antonio Espejo, accompanied by Fr. 2 Pecos (extinct, 1838) expedition over the same route up the Rio Grande. ..."

6. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"This greatly weakened the Charleston church and by the close of the present period it had become almost extinct. In 1737 a company of Welsh Baptists from ..."

7. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1915)
"Subsequently, Cope described this extinct cormorant and named it Graculus macropus.1 Several years afterwards, under the name Phalacrocorax macro- pus, ..."

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