ext illation

[Lat. exstillatus, pa. par. of exstillo.] The act of distilling or falling in drops. "They seemed made by an exsudation or ext illation of petrifying juices out of the rocky earth." - Derham: Physico-Theology. *ěx-tim-u-lāte, v . t . [Lat. exstimulo: ex out, fully, and stimulo to urge, to pre ; stimulus a goad.] To stimulate, to urge, to pre . "Choler is one excretion whereby nature excludeth another, which, descending unto the bowels, extimulates and excites them unto expulsion." -Browne: Vulgar Er rors , bk. iii., ch. ii. *ex-tim-u-lā-tion, s. [Lat. exstimulatio , from exstimulatus , pa. par. of exstimulo .] The act of stimulating; stimulation. "The air intermixed is without virtues, and maketh things insipid, and without any extimulation ."- Bacon : Natural History, § 841. II. Figuratively : 1. Having ceased to be; ended, finished; come to an end. "Let's try and fix some era, if we can, When good ones were extinct , and bad began." Jenyns: Horace, ep. i., bk. ii. *2. Fallen into disuse; obsolete; abolished; out of force. "A censure inflicted a jure continues, though such law be extinct , or the lawgiver removed from his office." Ayliffe : Parergon. *ex-tinct', *ex-tincte, v . t . [EXTINCT, α.] Το make extinct; to abolish; to make void; to destroy. "It may seem to his high wisdom meet to extinct and make frustrate the payments of the said annates or firstfruits." Acts of Part . 23 Henry VIII . , act 33. ěx-tińc-teûr, s . [Fr. extinguisher.] A fire extinguisher or annihilator. It was invented by Dr. F. Carlier, and patented by A. Vignon in July, 1862; a fire-annihilator having, however, been invented by Mr. T. Phillips in 1849. The extinct eur consisted of an iron cylinder filled with water and carbon-dioxide, generated by bicarbonate of soda and tartaric acid. It was subsequently improved by Mr. W. B. Dick. It is founded on the principle that carbon-dioxide, formerly called carbonic acid gas, extinguishes lights or any ordinary burning material. ex-tińc'-tion, s. [Fr., from Lat. extinctio, from extinct us, pa. par. of extinguo.] 1. The act of extinguishing or quenching. "Red-hot needles or wires, extinguished in quicksilver, do yet acquire a verticity according to the laws of position and extinction ."-Browne: Vulgar Errors. 2. The state of being extinguished or quenched. "The parts are consumed through extinction of their native heat, and di ipation of their radical moisture."Harvey. 3. The act of destroying, exterminating, or putting an end to; extermination, destruction, suppre ion. "The utter extinction and annihilation of the wicked after the day of judgment." -Glanvill : E ays , No. 5. 4. The state of being destroyed, exterminated, or suppre ed. "Where Vice to dark extinction flies." Mickle: Odes ; Knowledge , ode i.