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To drive out or away; to expel. They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion. Barrow.

the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated. Darwin.

n or the Cimmerian Bosporus. The Alans forced the Bosporian kings to pay them tribute and exterminated the Taurians. Tooke.

ashion, or doctrine. Old exploded contrivances of mercantile fraud. Burke. To explode and exterminate dark atheism. Bently.

One who, or that which, exterminates. Buckle.

Of or pertaining to extermination; tending to exterminate. "Exterminatory war." Burke.

To exterminate; to destroy. [Obs.] Shak.

hey formerly occupied the country between Lakes Huron, Erie, and Ontario, but were nearly exterminated by the Five Nations about 1650.

who, during several centuries, had more or less control of the government of Egypt, until exterminated or dispersed by Mehemet Ali in 1811.

found in New Zealand. They are allied to the apteryx and the ostrich. They were probably exterminated by the natives before New Zealand was discovered by Europeans. Some species were much larger than the ostrich.

in. -- to pluck up. (a) To tear up by the roots or from the foundation; to eradicate; to exterminate; to destroy; as, to pluck up a plant; to pluk up a nation. Jer. xii. 17. (b) To gather up; to summon; as, to pluck up courage.

racticed murder by stealthy approaches, and from religious motives. They have been nearly exterminated by the British government.

the region about Green Bay, Lake Michigan, but were driven back from the lake and nearly exterminated in 1640 by the IIlinnois.