Obs. [ad. L. ex(s)tirpātus, pa. pple. of ex(s)tirpāre: used as pa. pple. of next.] Rooted out, destroyed utterly, rendered extinct.
1541. Elyot, Image Gov. (1549), 116. It is profitable … to haue all occasions of sedicion … to be extirpate.
a. 1649. Drumm. of Hawth., Hist. Jas. V., Wks. (1711), 107. When a Vice cannot be extirpate and taken away.
1706. De Foe, Jure Div., VII. 146, note. The Race of Sinners was extirpate.
