How To Use Extirpate In A Sentence
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They don't extirpate every scintilla of self-doubt you've ever had.
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The commission to Moses, "to extirpate the Canaanitish tribes," has been the universal war-cry of the dominant party in the Church to burn and empale heretics.
Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
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The US regulators are seeking to extirpate the cancer before it spreads any further.
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Further, in a universal deluge, without special miracle vast numbers of even the salt water animals could not fail to be extirpated; in particular, almost all the molluscs of the littoral and laminarian zones.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
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He had fought in a war to extirpate fascism.
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Of these, no less than five spectacular species, namely Javan rhinoceros Rhinoceros sondaicus (CR), water buffalo Bubalus bubalis (EN), swamp deer Cervus duvauceli (VU), gaur Bos frontalis (VU) and probably hog deer Axis porcinus (LR) have become locally extirpated since the beginning of this century.
Sundarbans, Bangladesh
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The disgrace was expiated by a more noble alliance with a princess of China; and the decisive battle which almost extirpated the nation of the Geougen, established in Tartary the new and more powerful empire of the Turks.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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In most minds usage has so identified them with the notion of religion, that the one cannot be extirpated without the other.
Three Cheers for Mrs Beamish
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Extirpated species include birds such as the South Island subspecies of the endangered kokako (Callaeas cinerea cinerea) and the extinct piopio (Turnagra capensis), the grayling fish (Prototroctes oxyrhynchus), and plants like Stellaria elantinoides.
Southland temperate forests
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The letter continued with the hope that ‘Federal America will be able to extinguish this unrighteous rebellion, and extirpate the foul thing that so long has sullied her institutions and polluted her soul.’
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King William had demanded that the MacIans be "extirpated" but this was said to have been taken too far by the Master of Stair who was deemed to have exceeded his authority.
Massacre at Glencoe
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They're proposing a plan to extirpate themselves from the well-deserved guilt that they have for fermenting terror and militancy worldwide.
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Can it be that, like the calamander, or Coromandel-wood, which is rapidly approaching extinction, sandal-wood was extirpated from the island by injudicious cutting, unaccompanied by any precautions for the reproduction of the tree?] [Footnote 2: _Nan-shè_, b.lxxviii. p. 13.] [Footnote 3: _Suh-Hung keën-luh_, b.xlii. p. 52.]
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
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When they only denied the fruit, he did not distrain upon them for rent, nor disseize them and dispossess them for non-payment; but when they killed his servants, and his Son, he determined to destroy them; and this was fulfilled when Jerusalem was laid waste, and the Jewish nation extirpated and made a desolation.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John)
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I doubt whether this will be fully achieved until Labour itself has been extirpated as a political force in Scotland, but a beginning must be made.
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But, considering it would be easier to extirpate the ferocious colony in the infancy of their settlement, than after they should be multiplied and naturalised to the soil, I took the advice of my friend, who, to prevent such misfortunes, went always close shaved, and made the boy of our mess cut off my hair, which had been growing since I left the service of Lavement; and the second mate lent me an old bobwig to supply the loss of that covering.
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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As much as 73 percent of the island's original biota (flora and fauna) has been extirpated.
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The victor is the player who, when the referee's whistle goes to take the kick, can extirpate all of his surroundings and focus on the fundamental task in hand.
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And the roots of the 1950 conflict have yet to be extirpated.
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There should be no constitutional obligation to extirpate all historical religious references from American public life.
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Cleanliness will cure the plica; wisdom alone can extirpate schism.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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(Of course, the only group to be extirpated from the region en masse would be those of Japanese ancestry.)
IsThatLegal?
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So Christ himself represents all attempts to extirpate evil from humanity and from the individual man as futile, if the inward might of evil be not first broken by the power of the mightier, which is Christ, — by the finger of God.
The Scriptural Expositions of Dr. Augustus Neander: III. The First Epistle of John, Practically Explained.
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Extirpated species include birds such as the South Island subspecies of the endangered kokako (Callaeas cinerea cinerea) and the extinct piopio (Turnagra capensis), the grayling fish (Prototroctes oxyrhynchus), and plants like Stellaria elantinoides.
Southland temperate forests
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This would seem to make it all the more urgent that I extirpate the heresy - although, as we shall see, I don't think the argument constitutes such a threat to classical Marxist thought on this issue.
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They therefore insisted as a term of the agreement that the English agree to fight to extirpate "prelacy".
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The mountain guan is an obligate primary-forest bird that has been extirpated from the forest within the last 10 to 20 years.
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Were it not cruel in these circumstances, here might be the place to insert an observation, gleaned long ago from the great _Clothes-Volume_, where it stands with quite other intent: 'Some time before Small-pox was extirpated,' says the Professor, 'there came a new malady of the spiritual sort on Europe: I mean the epidemic, now endemical, of
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
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Much as one would wish it so, politically motivated violence directed at civilians by desperate people can no more be extirpated than can ‘evil’ itself.
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Robert Gottfried writes, “By 1351, 60 major and 150 smaller Jewish communities had been extirpated, and over 350 massacres had taken place.”
Modern Science in the Bible
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Even the fall of the Roman Empire did not empower ruthless rebels or pseudoreligious cults to extirpate law and order in every corner of the realm.
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Occasionally there are extraordinary exceptions, such as the American alligator, which having been almost extirpated is once again abundant.
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The system is then under fire for not having foreseen the future, that is, for having released the patient before the illness was totally extirpated.
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The last remaining Washington population, near Spokane, is most likely extirpated.
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Unlike the Anglo-Jewish novelist Amy Levy's own ironic rejoinder to Daniel Deronda, Reuben Sachs: A Sketch (1888), Gwendolen leaves the reader in absolutely no doubt of its intentions.3 After a scant few months in the East, Daniel is ready to chuck the Jews overboard permanently: he tells a rabbi that the Jews (parasites all) need to be "extirpated" through mass assimilation (28), and is thoroughly depressed by the "unholy depravities" (64) on exhibit in the Jewish community.
Religion
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Yellow-billed Cuckoos are officially considered extirpated in Washington, and the occasional sightings are vagrants.
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The roads resound with atrocious profanity, and the rowdyism of the saloons and bar-rooms is repressed, not extirpated.
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
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They're endangered throughout the majority of their range, and in fact in a lot of the areas they've been extirpated, which is a local extinction.
CNN Transcript Apr 4, 2007
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By the mid-1800s deer, beaver, and wild turkey, to name just a few of the most commonly hunted animals, had been all but extirpated from the northeastern United States.
Overkill
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Many islands, such as Kiritimati (Christmas), have feral cat populations that have extirpated ground-nesting seabirds from areas they can reach.
Central Polynesian tropical moist forests
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Yet the principle of independent thought was too firmly rooted in Athens to be extirpated by the death of one individual; and so in time the accusers of Socrates were condemned and Socrates himself posthumously exonerated.
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To take from a man his earnings, is theft; but to take the earner is a compound, life-long theft; and we who profess to follow in the footsteps of our Redeemer, should do our utmost to extirpate slavery from the land.
Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life
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[Sidenote: A sentence a - genst thefte.] the vniuersalle societée of life is caste doune, hereby a confu - sion groweth, and a subuersion in all states immediatlie fol - loweth, equitee, iustice, and all sincere dealyng is abaundo - ned, violence extirpateth vertue, and aucthoritie is cutte of.
A booke called the Foundacion of Rhetorike because all other partes of Rhetorike are grounded thereupon, euery parte sette forthe in an Oracion vpon questions, verie profitable to bee knowen and redde
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Even the blithe lovebird will extirpate its rival suitor in the most gruesome manner.
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‘The root of the evil and its branch,’ as Mr. Churchill said, ‘must be extirpated together.’
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A neo-Georgian poet, disciple of FREUD, pacificist and vegetarian, will gladly pay five pounds to any psychopathic suggestionist who will extirpate from his subconsciousness the lingering relics of an antipathy to syncopated rhythms which retard his progress towards a complete mastery of the technique of amorphous bombination.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 14th, 1920
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It is this prelacy, thus clothed, thus circumstanced, which we swear to extirpate; read else the clause again, prelacy, that is, church government by archbishops, bishops, their chancellors.
The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation
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It is a curious circumstance, in fact, that the animals and plants of the Northern Hemisphere are not only as well adapted to live in the Southern Hemisphere as its own autochthones, but are in many cases absolutely better adapted, and so overrun and extirpate the aborigines.
Essays
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Last century, many valuable timber species formed extensive jungles of tremendous tree size, but today are almost extirpated, among them were Swietenia macrophylla, Cedrela odorata, Caesalpinia ebenum, Cariniana pyriformis, Tabebuia chrysantha, Bombacopsis sp.,
Sinú Valley dry forests
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Rome and the Campagna have been afflicted, from time immemorial, by two plagues, mendicity and brigandage, which after having infected the district with more or less violence for nearly twenty centuries, have been finally thoroughly extirpated by the Italian national government, and relegated to a place among the legends of the past.