Also 5 extincte. [ad. L. ex(s)tinct-us, pa. pple. of ex(s)tinguĕre: see EXTINGUISH. As used by Caxton and writers of the 16th c. it may be regarded as pa. pple. of EXTINCT v.]
A. pple. Extinguished (see senses of EXTINCT, EXTINGUISH, vbs.). Now rare.
1432–50. trans. Higden (Rolls), I. 219. That fyre was extincte. Ibid., I. 347. This duke Turgesius was perischede and extincte.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 176/4. The more they lyght them [candellys] the more were they extyncte.
1548–9. (Mar.) Bk. Com. Prayer, Offices, 8. Graunt that al sinne and vice here maie be so extinct.
1598. Rowlands, Betraying of Christ, 30. They blind his sight, whose soules more blind Had quite extinct the light of grace.
1612. Brerewood, Lang. & Relig., iv. (1614), 26, running head. The Spanish & Pannonian tongues not extinct by the Romans.
1631. R. Byfield, Doctr. Sabb., 99. It tooke fire indeed, but was quickly extinct.
1734. Law, Enquiry Space, 26. Take away the Things and their respective Order and Distance … may cease and be extinct.
1887. Talmage, in Pall Mall Gaz., 30 Dec., 13/2. As I uttered the last word of my manuscript, the lights were suddenly extinct.
B. adj. (In early use with distinctly ppl. sense; in mod. use it usually denotes a state without reference to the action from which this results.)
1. Of a fire, flame, light: Extinguished, quenched, put out; no longer burning. Of a volcano: That has ceased eruption.
1432–50. trans. Higden (Rolls), I. 119. A lawnterne … extincte is drownede in to hit.
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 197 b. The lampe of grace in thy soule wyll soone be extinct.
1652. Gaule, Magastrom., 355. Now neither the husband nor any of the family could be awaked till that Torch was extinct.
1784. Cowper, Task, VI. 684. A spark or two not yet extinct.
1834. Medwin, Angler in Wales, I. 249. There are some who … when we [cigars] are not half extinct throw us contemptuously away.
1843. Penny Cycl., XXVI. 427/2. Active or extinct volcanoes.
1878. Huxley, Physiogr., 193. A group of small extinct volcanoes.
† b. Quicksilver extinct [= Fr. mercure éteint]: mercury triturated with fats or chalk, and therefore no longer lustrous. Obs.
1610. Markham, Masterp., II. cxxx. 432. Quicke-siluer extinct, and verdigrease, of each an ounce.
2. Of things comparable to a fire or light (e.g., life, hope, passion, disease, etc.): Quenched; that has ceased to burn or shine.
1494. Fabyan, Chron., V. cxviii. 94. The feythe … was well nere extyncte thoroughe all the lande.
1591. Troubl. Raigne K. John (1611), G ij. Young Arthurs eies are blinded and extinct.
1777. Priestley, Matt. & Spir. (1782), I. v. 56. Every faculty of the mind … is liable … to become wholly extinct before death.
1826. Disraeli, Viv. Grey, III. V. xii. 236. Conversation seemed nearly extinct.
1828. Scott, F. M. Perth, xxiv. He was cut down … before life was extinct.
1857. Buckle, Civiliz., I. vi. 294. The last hope of the Mohammedans was extinct.
† 3. Of a person: Cut off; dead; blotted out of existence. Also, passed away, vanished. Obs.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 5/2. All were … deed and extynct.
1530. Heywood, Four P. P., in Hazl., Dodsley, I. 375. He may at liberty Pass safe … Till that he be from us extinct.
1611. Bible, Job xvii. 1. My dayes are extinct.
1654. H. L’Estrange, Chas. I. (1655), 4. The usuall ceremony ordained to the bodies of extinct Princes.
1665. G. Havers, P. della Valle’s Trav. E. India, 93. The King of Vidià-Nagàr … lost together with his life a great part of his Dominion, and became in a manner extinct.
1675. trans. Machiavelli’s Prince, xi. (Rtldg., 1883), 75. The Pope being dead and Valentine extinct.
4. That has died out or come to an end. a. Of a family, a class of persons, a race or species of animals or plants: Having no living representative; ‘without progressive succession’ (J.).
1683. Brit. Spec., 156. The Line of Henry VIIIth … being extinct.
1719. De Foe, Crusoe (ed. 3), I. 331. My Father was dead, and my Mother, and all the Family extinct.
1748. Jenyns, Imit. Hor. Epist., II. i. 48. Let’s try and fix some æra, if we can, When good ones [ministers] were extinct, and bad began.
1868. Freeman, Norm. Conq. (1876), II. ix. 434. The royal house … was not yet extinct.
1874. Helps, Soc. Press., iii. 35. The great book collectors (except in America) seem to be an extinct race.
b. Of an institution, dignity, office, etc.: Obsolete. Of a title of nobility: Having no qualified claimant.
1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 51. Ye Supper of the Lord … you haue so defiled … that the true vse therof is almost vtterly extinct.
1651. Hobbes, Leviath., II. xxix. 174. The Assembly it selfe is extinct.
1818. Cruise, Digest (ed. 2), III. 244. The dignities limited to the heirs male of Sir Robert Sydney became extinct.
1836. J. Gilbert, Chr. Atonem., iv. (1852), 103. They imagine the office of moral rule in another state to become extinct.
1841. W. Spalding, Italy & It. Isl., III. 181. The three extinct republics, Florence, Pisa, and Siena.
1848. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., I. 537. His marquisate became extinct; but his son was permitted to inherit the ancient earldom.
c. Law in phr. possibility of issue extinct.
1574. trans. Littleton’s Tenures, 7 b. He … is tenaunt in the tayle after possibilitie of issue extinct.
1818. Cruise, Digest (ed. 2), I. 154. A person may be tenant in tail, after possibility of issue extinct.
d. Of a law, legal power or right, etc.
1628. Coke, On Litt., 147. All the Rent [charge] is extinct.
1726. Ayliffe, Parergon, 156. A Censure inflicted à Jure continues, tho’ such Law be extinct.
1818. Cruise, Digest (ed. 2), VI. 457. Such a power, though extinct at law, would certainly be enforced in equity.
