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Example sentences for "extirpate"

Lexicographically close words:
extinguishers; extinguishes; extinguisheth; extinguishing; extinguishment; extirpated; extirpating; extirpation; extol; extoll
  1. It behoveth not thee to extirpate any creatures.

  2. But gradually and secretly do they extirpate their doers.

  3. There was not the same spirit of cruelty or bloodthirstiness as in Murad's case, but there was the deliberate policy to extirpate abuses by the forcible removal of those concerned in them.

  4. On his return to Constantinople Selim, inflamed by his success in putting down the heresy of the Schiis and his victory over heretical Persia, determined to extirpate Christianity from his dominion.

  5. Selim, who was a bigoted follower of Mahomet, determined to extirpate this heresy throughout his Empire.

  6. Their blood was up, and they determined to extirpate the Conestogas.

  7. Amherst rejoined: "You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians by means of blankets, as well as to try every other method that can serve to extirpate this execrable race.

  8. It is hard to extirpate ignorance at once).

  9. I beheld Hari to have come down six times in the shape of Renuka's son or Parashurama, and extirpate the Kshetriya race at the intervals of very long periods.

  10. Yet he is far from wishing to extirpate the sentiment of religion, which he sees to be common to all mankind--Barbarians as well as Hellenes.

  11. Our methods are changed; we desire to suppress poverty, not to extirpate the poor man.

  12. If the boys in a district discovered how to take birds' eggs, they might soon extirpate a species; but it does not follow that the birds would individually suffer.

  13. The news soon reached the Great Mogul, and he was so enraged that he threatened to extirpate the English on the Indian coast.

  14. This disorder, which had prevailed during many reigns, when the law could give little protection to the subject, was then deeply rooted in England; and it required all the vigilance and rigor of Henry to extirpate it.

  15. What will be a wholesome remedy to extirpate the pest of these witches.

  16. When the sisters and children of Ali were brought in chains to the throne of Damascus, the caliph was advised to extirpate the enmity of a popular and hostile race, whom he had injured beyond the hope of reconciliation.

  17. He was excessively enraged against Cortes and the whole of us, and ordered one of his powerful chiefs to make war upon the tribes which had revolted, and extirpate them to a man.

  18. For the rest, our allies in the mountains and the inhabitants of Sempoalla had stood in no little awe of Motecusuma, as they believed nothing less than that he would instantly invade their country with a great army to extirpate them.

  19. Such were they who formed the House of Commons that met in 1581, discontented with the severities used against the puritans, but ready to go beyond any measures that the court might propose to subdue and extirpate popery.

  20. We cannot wonder to read that these new statutes increased the dissatisfaction of the Roman catholics, who perceived a systematic determination to extirpate their religion.

  21. Every attempt to subdue or extirpate them, has proved abortive.

  22. She used all the influence which the love of her husband gave her to extirpate the last vestiges of idolatry in the country which had been the centre and last bulwark of Anglo-Saxon heathenism.

  23. But on a sudden the Jesuits determined to extirpate them, and the storm broke out with the most inveterate vehemence.

  24. In order, if possible, to extirpate Quietism, the inquisitors sent a circular letter to cardinal Cibo, as the chief minister, to disperse it through Italy.

  25. During this minority of the young emperor Cang-hi, the regents and nobles conspired to extirpate the christian religion.

  26. Yet has she disregarded every protestation, every claim, and every petition, and instead of treating us as human beings or subjects, she has made every effort that pen, fire and sword could make to extirpate our race.

  27. Let the queen accept the choice of her people, marry Courtenay, send Elizabeth to the Tower, and extirpate heresy with fire and sword.

  28. And whilst Spaniards in Philippine waters were straining every nerve to extirpate slavery, their countrymen were diligently pursuing a profitable trade in it between the West Coast of Africa and Cuba!

  29. He had, moreover, the adroitness to extirpate that rivalry which alone destroys all united effort.


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    Other words:
    abate; abolish; amputate; annihilate; ban; bar; bury; clip; crop; cull; cut; destroy; dock; efface; eliminate; eradicate; except; excise; exclude; exterminate; extinguish; extirpate; isolate; liquidate; mutilate; nip; obliterate; pare; peel; prune; purge; remove; rid; root; shave; shear; stamp; strip; truncate; uproot