extirpator
(ˈɛkstəpeɪtə(r), -ˈtɜːpətə(r))
Also 8 -er.
[ad. L. ex(s)tirpātor, agent-n. f. ex(s)tirpāre: see extirpate v.]
One who, or that which, extirpates.
| 1706 in Phillips (ed. Kersey), Extirpator one that Extirpates or Destroys, as an Extirpater of Heresies. 1776–83 Justamond Raynal's Indies (ed. 2) I. 283 These extirpators with all their industry can only execute their commission upon the coast. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (1807) I. 35 The extirpator is a machine of this sort..for detroying weeds. 1830 D'Israeli Chas. I, III. xii. 264 The great extirpator of episcopacy. 1870 Anderson Missions Amer. Bd. III. viii. 115 Three men..extirpators of heresy. |