Chiefly Sc. Obs. Also 6 extermynion, 6–7 exterminioun. [after L. type *exterminiōn-em, f. extermin-āre: see EXTERMINATE. Cf. opīniōn-em, f. opīnārī. Late L. had exterminium in same sense.] Extermination.
1528. Gardiner, in Pocock, Rec. Ref., I. l. 105. The extermynion of the emperors army.
1582–8. Hist. James VI. (1804), 207. For punishment and utter exterminion of these.
1629. Symmer, Spir. Posie, I. iii. 12. The bleare eye of carnall reason could not see any issue, or way to escape that imminent exterminion.
16[?]. Sc. Acts Chas. I. (1814), V. 309 (Jam.). Thair is nothing les intendit againes this … kingdome nor ane uttir exterminioun and totall destructioun.
