a. [f. EXTERMINATE + -ORY.] Tending to extermination; characterized by attempts at extermination.
1790. Burke, Fr. Rev., 208. This exterminatory war. Ibid. (c. 1795), Lett. to R. Burke, Wks. 1826, IX. 444. Those terrible, confiscatory, and exterminatory periods.
1863. Cowden Clarke, Shaks. Char., xvi. 393. That exterminatory code which hitherto had kept them in abeyance.
