Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Quenched; put out; destroyed. Specifically: In pharmacy, rendered indistinguishable through fine subdivision: noting the condition produced by triturating mercury with lard until the metallic globules are no longer visible.
- In the petrographical investigation of rocks and minerals with a polarizing microscope, noting the complete darkening of a transparent section of a bire-fracting mineral when its axes of elasticity coincide with the planes of the crossed Nicol prisms.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Psychol.) caused to die out because of the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement; -- of a conditioned response.
- adjective no longer burning; -- of a fire.
- adjective no longer existing; -- of species.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
extinguish . - adjective referring to something that has been eliminated
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- adjective of a conditioned response; caused to die out because of the absence or withdrawal of reinforcement
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Examples
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In addition to all these considerations, the right of North Carolina to have this title extinguished by the General Government, is strengthened by the policy which has been pursued towards the Cherokees by the States of Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama.
North Carolina--Cherokee Indians. Report and Resolution of a Joint Committee of the Legislature of North Carolina, Relative to the Cherokee Indians North Carolina. General Assembly 1834
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Men of competence will never be extinguished from the memory of humanity because his wisdom, his dedication to the improvement of humanity, his tenacity for the progress of science in favor of mankind, makes people everywhere, all believers, all ideologies, feel in one way or another under an obligation to his talents and his boldness.
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Michigan to the Mississippi, has the Indian title extinguished, and, in part, has been surveyed and brought into market.
A New Guide for Emigrants to the West John Mason Peck 1823
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Upon his death his titles extinguished; but his estates devolved on his nephew, the Lord John Fitz Maurice, in whose favour the title of
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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* Restore any uninvestigated customary title extinguished by the 2004 Act
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* Restore any uninvestigated customary title extinguished by the 2004 Act
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Maori customary title extinguished by the last Labour Government's contentious Foreshore and Seabed Act will be restored, under proposals just announced.
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Maori customary title extinguished by the last Labour Government's contentious Foreshore and Seabed Act will be restored, under proposals just announced.
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Maori customary title extinguished by the last Labour Government's contentious Foreshore and Seabed Act will be restored, under proposals just announced.
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* Restore any uninvestigated customary title extinguished by the 2004 Act
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ruzuzu commented on the word extinguished
"1. Quenched; put out; destroyed. Specifically: In pharmacy, rendered indistinguishable through fine subdivision: noting the condition produced by triturating mercury with lard until the metallic globules are no longer visible.
2. In the petrographical investigation of rocks and minerals with a polarizing microscope, noting the complete darkening of a transparent section of a bire-fracting mineral when its axes of elasticity coincide with the planes of the crossed Nicol prisms."
--Century Dictionary
January 25, 2011