Ex*ter"mi*nate (?), v. t. [imp.
& p. p. Exterminated(?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Exterminating(?).] [L. exterminatus, p. p.
of exterminare to abolish, destroy, drive out or away;
ex out + terminus boundary, limit. See Term.]
1. To drive out or away; to expel.
They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of
communion.
Barrow.
2. To destroy utterly; to cut off; to
extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a
colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or
vice.
To explode and exterminate rank
atheism.
Bentley.
3. (Math.) To eliminate, as unknown
quantities. [R.]