[f. EXTRACT v. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. EXTRACT; extraction.

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a. 1626.  Bacon, Phys. Rem., Wks. 1740, I. 217. The drawing one metal or mineral out of another which we call extracting.

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1874.  Mahaffy, Soc. Life Greece, x. 315. An extracting of thought from the dormant intellect of a pupil.

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  attrib.  1635.  Sibbes, Soules Confl. (1636), 13. Vapours drawne up by the Sunne … (when the extracting force of the Sunne leaves them) fall downe again to the earth.

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1883.  Daily News, 27 July, 2/1. The extracting levers [of these guns] have enormous power.

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