v. Obs. [ad. F. exterminer, f. L. extermināre: see EXTERMINATE.]
1. = EXTERMINATE 1. Const. from, out of.
1634. Heywood, Witches of Lanc., IV. Wks. 1874, IV. 228. Thou had’st extermin’d Thy selfe out of the blest society Of Saints and Angels. Ibid. (1637), Royal Ship, 42. This word … was absolutely extermin’d and excommunicated from all grammaticall construction.
2. = EXTERMINATE 2, 3.
1539. in Vicary’s Anat. (1888), App. iii. 172. By fyer & sworde to extermyn & vtterly to destroy the hole nacion.
1563–87. Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 181/2. Roger bishop of Salisburie … was … miserablie, but iustlie, extermined.
1600. Shaks., A. Y. L., III. v. 89. By giuing loue your sorrow, and my griefe Were both extermin’d.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., VII. 331. The Turke … mindfull all-vtterly to extermine their power.
