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adjective

Extinct adj.

Extinguished; put out; quenched; as, a fire, a light, or a lamp, is extinct; an extinct volcano. "Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct."

Without a survivor; without force; dead; as, a family becomes extinct; an extinct feud or law.

Specifically: Once existing as a species but now having no living members; used of species of living organisms, especially of animals and plants; as, dinosaurs are now extinct; the dodo bird is extinct.

verb

Extinct v. t. To cause to be extinct. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Extinct'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Extinct" Quotes from Famous Books

... Terms defined. Formations of the Recent Period. Modern littoral Deposits containing Works of Art near Naples. Danish Peat and Shell-mounds. Swiss Lake-dwellings. Periods of Stone, Bronze, and Iron. Post-pliocene Formations. Coexistence of Man with extinct Mammalia. Reindeer Period of South of France. Alluvial Deposits of Paleolithic Age. Higher and Lower-level Valley-gravels. Loess or Inundation-mud of the Nile, Rhine, etc. Origin of Caverns. Remains of Man and extinct Quadrupeds in Cavern Deposits. Cave ...

— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell

... westward, from the rich basaltic plains to the eastward. These plains, so famous for the richness of their pasture, and for the excellency of the sheep and cattle depastured upon them, have become equally remarkable as the depositaries of the remains of extinct species of animals, several of which must have been of a gigantic size, being the Marsupial representatives of the Pachydermal ...

— Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia • Ludwig Leichhardt

... over the hills surrounding this British seaport of Aden, they could see that the town nestled in the crater of an extinct volcano, as they had read. All around the low, white buildings spread the rugged hillsides, and in declivities they passed over numbers of the great brick tanks or reservoirs which catch and store the scanty rainfall of the region and thus furnish Aden with ...

— Around the World in Ten Days • Chelsea Curtis Fraser

... "the owner awakened, and uttered a low, but angry remonstrance. Better he had been silent. Dipping a napkin in an ewer of water that stood beside him, you held the wet cloth over his face, and did not remove it till life was extinct. All this ...

— Old Saint Paul's - A Tale of the Plague and the Fire • William Harrison Ainsworth

... "save that the Count in possession happens to be a Countess—the grand-daughter of the original usurper, whose male line is extinct. Oh, the history of Sampaolo has been highly coloured. A writer in some English magazine once described it as a patchwork of melodrama and opera-bouffe. It ended, if you like, in melodrama and opera-bouffe, but it began in ...

— The Lady Paramount • Henry Harland

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