extinct

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat 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.”

2. sıfat 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.”

3. sıfat 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.”

4. sıfat 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.”

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 sıfat Of a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting.

   “Most of the volcanos on this island are now extinct.”

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

8. fiil To stop (fire, etc.) from burning; also, to stop (light, etc.) from shining; to put out, to quench.

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

9. fiil To kill (someone).
10. fiil To put an end to (something) completely; to annihilate, to destroy.

    “Graunt that al ſinne & vice here maie bee ſo extinct: that thei neuer haue power to raigne in they ſeruaũtes. Amẽ.”

11. fiil To cause (an animal or plant species) to die out completely or become extinct (adjective etymology 1 sense 2.3).
12. fiil To suppress (something, as feelings, a person's spirit, a state of affairs, etc.); to quench.

    “It is more hard, loue to our ſelues to extinkt, / Then hate to other, to plucke from tharts preſinkt, / Thus, of iuſtice no let ledeth intrupcion, / Like this loue (name ſelfe loue) growne of corrupcion.”

13. fiil To abolish or make void (a law, a legal right, etc.); also, to cancel (a creditor's claim, a license, etc.).

    “And foraſmuch as the ſaid Statute vvas ordained to give a Certainty of Title in the Lands and Tenements compriſed in the Fine, it ſeemeth that the Fine extincteth the Title of all other, as vvell in Conſcience, as it doth in the Lavv.”

14. isim 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.”