extinct

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of fire, etc.

   Of fire, etc.: no longer alight; of a light, etc.: no longer shining; extinguished, quenched.

   • Edward’s cigarillo was extinct by the time he had finished talking.
   • Ah pleaſant proof! / That piety has ſtill in human hearts / Some place, a ſpark or tvvo not yet extinct.
   • Most of the lamps were extinct, but they glittered golden in the morning light, and in some few a pale white flame yet struggled with day.
2. 2

   Of feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.

   Of feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.: put out, as if like a fire; quenched, suppressed.

   • My breath is corrupt, my dayes are extinct, the graues are ready for me.
   • I am the Lord, your holy one, the Creatour of Iſrael, your King. […] Which bringeth foorth the charet and horſe, the armie and the power: they ſhall lie downe together, they ſhall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as towe.
   • Conversation seemed nearly extinct, and yet neither offered to turn back.
3. 3

   Of customs, ideas, laws and legal rights, offices, organizations, languages, etc.

   Of customs, ideas, laws and legal rights, offices, organizations, languages, etc.: no longer existing or in use; defunct, discontinued, obsolete; specifically, of a title of nobility: no longer having any person qualified to hold it.

   • Luckily, such ideas about race are extinct in current sociological theory.
   • The title became extinct when the last baron died.
   • [King Edward] as being deſcended of the eldeſt Daughter of Dauid, Earle of Huntingdon, a yonger ſonne of [Henry of] Scotland; vvhoſe iſſue (the line of the elder brother being extinct) vvas to inherite, vvithout queſtion.
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   1. 4

      Of an animal or plant species or group of species, a group of people, a family, etc.,…

      Of an animal or plant species or group of species, a group of people, a family, etc., having no living members, representatives, or descendants.

      • Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years.
      • I vvent dovvn aftervvards into Yorkſhire; but my Father vvas dead, and my Mother, and all the Family extinct, except that I found tvvo Siſters, and tvvo of the Children of one of my Brothers; […]
      • [M]any breeds, now extinct or rare, both of quadrupeds and birds, were still common.
   2. 5

      Of a geological feature

      Of a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting.

      • Most of the volcanos on this island are now extinct.
      • They found the sites of extinct geysers.
   3. 6

      Of a radioisotope

      Of a radioisotope: no longer occurring primordially due to having decayed away completely, because it has a relatively short half-life.

   4. 7

      Of a person

      Of a person: dead; also, permanently separated from others.

      • [H]e may at lybertie / Paſſe ſaue without hys ieopardy / Tyll that he be from vs extyncte / And clerely out of helles precincte
   5. 8

      Synonym of extinguish.

      • […] Eugenia […] was put in the hot baths, which were extincted, and ſhe preſerued: […] At laſt the ſtorie ſaith, ſhée was with the ſword beheaded.
   6. 9

      Synonym of extinction (“the action of becoming or making extinct

      Synonym of extinction (“the action of becoming or making extinct; annihilation”).

      • [W]ho is he […] as vvould not euen in the glas of Lucreſias perſeuerãce (euẽ to the vttermoſt extinct of life) ſe the vvõder of bevvty, matched vvith the indiuiduat adiũt vnſoyled conſtancy.
      • [W]ee have cauſe to feare the loſſe of our Kingdome, and you the extinct of the Engliſh nations renovvne; […]

The neighborhood

• neighbordistinct
• neighborextinction
• neighborextinctive
• neighborextinctively
• neighborextinguish
• neighbornonextinction
• neighborsemiextinction