extirpation

• For extirpation, the skin having been shaved beforehand, the vein should be made prominent, and then carefully laid bare. —  Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages
• And ever in a more or less active but always consistent manner opposed it, until its final extirpation was accomplished, though not until the Church had been several times divided in favor of and against it The Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America was organized in what is historically known as the Christmas Conference, which convened in Baltimore at ten o'clock Friday morning, December 24, 1784, Bishop Thomas Coke, presiding. —  History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens
• Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury, convened a council of the bishops and clergy, who met by adjournment, in full numbers, at St. Paul's, on the 26th of June 1413;[9] and adopted most rigorous measures for the extirpation of heresy, levelled professedly with a more especial aim against the ringleader of Lollardism, as he p. 008) was called, the valiant and unfortunate Lord Cobham. —  Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth
• Undoubtedly the hierarchy set all the engines in motion for the extirpation of Lollardism, as the principles of the rising sect were called. —  Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth
• Hundreds of the ablest judges were selected for the extirpation of this crime. —  The Necessity of Atheism

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