extinctadj詞源 1/ɪkˈstɪŋkt/

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  archaicOf fire, etc.: no longer alight; of a light, etc.: no longer shining; extinguished, quenched.

  • Edward’s cigarillo was extinct by the time he had finished talking.
  • Ah pleaſant proof! / That piety has ſtill in human hearts / Some place, a ſpark or tvvo not yet extinct.
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  Of feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.: put out, as if like a fire; quenched, suppressed.

  • My breath is corrupt, my dayes are extinct, the graues are ready for me.
  • I am the Lord, your holy one, the Creatour of Iſrael, your King. […] Which bringeth foorth the charet and horſe, the armie and the power: they ſhall lie downe together, they ſhall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as towe.
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  Of customs, ideas, laws and legal rights, offices, organizations, languages, etc.: no longer existing or in use; defunct, discontinued, obsolete; specifically, of a title of nobility: no longer having any person qualified to hold it.

  • Luckily, such ideas about race are extinct in current sociological theory.
  • The title became extinct when the last baron died.
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  biologynatural-sciencesOf an animal or plant species or group of species, a group of people, a family, etc., having no living members, representatives, or descendants.

  • Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years.
  • I vvent dovvn aftervvards into Yorkſhire; but my Father vvas dead, and my Mother, and all the Family extinct, except that I found tvvo Siſters, and tvvo of the Children of one of my Brothers; […]
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  geographygeologynatural-sciencesOf a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting.

  • Most of the volcanos on this island are now extinct.
  • They found the sites of extinct geysers.
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  Of a radioisotope: no longer occurring primordially due to having decayed away completely, because it has a relatively short half-life.

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  obsoleteOf a person: dead; also, permanently separated from others.

  • [H]e may at lybertie / Paſſe ſaue without hys ieopardy / Tyll that he be from vs extyncte / And clerely out of helles precincte

extinctverb詞源 2/ɪkˈstɪŋkt/

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  obsoleteSynonym of extinguish.

  • […] Eugenia […] was put in the hot baths, which were extincted, and ſhe preſerued: […] At laſt the ſtorie ſaith, ſhée was with the ſword beheaded.
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  obsoleteSynonym of extinguish.

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  obsoleteSynonym of extinguish.

  • Graunt that al ſinne & vice here maie bee ſo extinct: that thei neuer haue power to raigne in they ſeruaũtes. Amẽ.
  • […] Almes doe deliuer from all ſinne and from death;[…]. Not from that (ſaith Cyprian) which the blood of Chriſt hath once extincted, and from which the wholeſome grace of our baptiſme, and of our redeemer hath deliuered vs, but from that death which afterwards creepeth in by ſinne, &c.
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  obsoletebiologynatural-sciencesSynonym of extinguish.

  • Paleontologists determine which animal species were extincted, and geomorphologists can find cycles of soil erosion. […] The first settlers were living along the coast of this very large island off Africa [Madagascar], but in about seven hundred years they had spread across the entire island and in the process extincted almost all large game, including hippos, tortoises, giant lemurs—some two dozen species in all.
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  obsoleteSynonym of extinguish.

  • It is more hard, loue to our ſelues to extinkt, / Then hate to other, to plucke from tharts preſinkt, / Thus, of iuſtice no let ledeth intrupcion, / Like this loue (name ſelfe loue) growne of corrupcion.
  • Great Ioue, Othello guard, / And ſvvell his Saile vvith thine ovvne povvrefull breath, / That he may bleſſe this Bay vvith his tall Ship, / Make loues quicke pants in Deſdemonaes Armes, / Giue renevv'd fire to our extincted Spirits.
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  obsoletelawSynonym of extinguish.

  • So if I have a rent charge, and grant it upon condition; now, though the condition be broken, the grantee's estate is not defeated till I have made my claim: but if after any such grant my father purchase the land, and it descend to me; now, if the condition be broken, the rent ceaseth without claim. But if I had purchased the land myself, then I had extincted mine own condition, because I had disabled myself to make my claim.
  • And foraſmuch as the ſaid Statute vvas ordained to give a Certainty of Title in the Lands and Tenements compriſed in the Fine, it ſeemeth that the Fine extincteth the Title of all other, as vvell in Conſcience, as it doth in the Lavv.

extinctnoun詞源 3/ɪkˈstɪŋkt/

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  obsoleteSynonym of extinction (“the action of becoming or making extinct; annihilation”).

  • [W]ho is he […] as vvould not euen in the glas of Lucreſias perſeuerãce (euẽ to the vttermoſt extinct of life) ſe the vvõder of bevvty, matched vvith the indiuiduat adiũt vnſoyled conſtancy.
  • [W]ee have cauſe to feare the loſſe of our Kingdome, and you the extinct of the Engliſh nations renovvne; […]