extinct
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: biology
geography
geology
natural-sciences
Etymology: From Late Middle English extinct (“eliminated, eradicated, extinguished”), from Latin extīnctus, exstīnctus (“extinguished, quenched; destroyed, killed; made extinct”), the perfect passive participles of extinguō, exstinguō (“to extinguish, put out, quench; (figurative) to abolish; to destroy, kill”), from ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’) + stinguō (“to extinguish, put out, quench”) (from Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ- (“to push”)). The Middle English word displaced Middle English aqueint, aquenched (“extinct; extinguished”). Doublet of extinguish.
Inflected forms:
Senses:
gloss: Of fire, etc.: no longer alight; of a light, etc.: no longer shining; extinguished, quenched.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
not-comparable
examples: 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.
gloss: Of feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.: put out, as if like a fire; quenched, suppressed.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: 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.
I knew at Paris a criminal condemned to die by the halter, […] He was cut down, and given to his friends before life was extinct, and I had the good fortune to recover him.
gloss: 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.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: 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.
[I]f the father bee infeoffed with warrantie to him and his heyres, the father infeoffeth his eldeſt ſon with warrantie and dieth, the Law giueth to the ſonne aduantage of the Warrantie made to his father, becauſe by act in Law the Warrantie betweene the father and the ſonne is extinct.
[W]hen the Povver of an Aſſembly is once ſuppreſſed, the Right of the ſame periſheth utterly; becauſe the Aſſembly it ſelfe is extinct; and conſequently, there is no poſſibility for the Soveraignty to re-enter.
An Eccleſiaſtical Cenſure is tvvofold; the one inflicted by Lavv; and the other inflicted by Man. […] Some ſay, That a Cenſure ab Homine, ceaſes on the Death of the Perſon, that pronounced the ſame; but a Cenſure inflicted à Jure continues, tho' ſuch Lavv be extinct, or the Lavv-giver removed from his Office.
The hatred with which he [George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys] was regarded by the people of Somersetshire has no parallel in our history. […] When he had been many years dead, when his name and title were extinct, his granddaughter, the Countess of Pomfret [Henrietta Louisa Fermor], travelling along the western road, was insulted by the populace, and found that she could not safely venture herself among the descendants of those who had witnessed the bloody assizes.
The withdrawal in past months of the former North London Railway locomotive from Bow, and one of the three ex-Great Eastern engines from Stratford works, indicates that the crane locomotive will soon be extinct on British Railways.
The ex-G.C. Class A5 4-6-2T, of which No. 69820 was one, is now extinct.
Indeed the very fact that the English spelling system writes in there as two words but therein as one word might be taken as suggesting that only the former is a productive syntactic construction in Modern English, the latter being a now extinct construction which has left behind a few fossil remnants in the form of compound words such as thereby.
gloss: Of an animal or plant species or group of species, a group of people, a family, etc., having no living members, representatives, or descendants.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: 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.
I am fully convinced that species are not immutable; but that those belonging to what are called the same genera are lineal descendants of some other and generally extinct species, in the same manner as the acknowledged varieties of any one species are the descendants of that species.
Wrex: And before you die, I want you to know I'm calling off our support for Earth! If my people go extinct, so do yours!
Muksin specifically mentioned 11 extinct indigenous languages, such as Tandia and Mawes in West Papua and Papua, along with Kajeli, Piru, Moksela, Palumata, Ternateno, Hukumina, Hoti, Serua, and Nila in different areas of Maluku.
The result is essentially a hybrid species similar in appearance to its extinct forerunner.
gloss: Of a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
examples: Most of the volcanos on this island are now extinct.
They found the sites of extinct geysers.
gloss: Of a radioisotope: no longer occurring primordially due to having decayed away completely, because it has a relatively short half-life.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
gloss: Of a person: dead; also, permanently separated from others.
pos: adj
tags: figuratively
not-comparable
obsolete
examples: [H]e may at lybertie / Paſſe ſaue without hys ieopardy / Tyll that he be from vs extyncte / And clerely out of helles precincte
Related words: distinct
extinction
extinctive
extinctively
extinguish
nonextinction
semiextinction
Derived words: coextinct
extinctic
extinct language
extinctness
extinctor
extinctual
extincture
inextinct
nonextinct
pseudoextinct
semiextinct
unextinct
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