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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
extinguish .
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Examples
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The second is contemplation, [1984] which dries the brain and extinguisheth natural heat; for whilst the spirits are intent to meditation above in the head, the stomach and liver are left destitute, and thence come black blood and crudities by defect of concoction, and for want of exercise the superfluous vapours cannot exhale, &c.
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This is so grievous a torment for the time, that it takes away their appetite, desire of life, extinguisheth all delights, it causeth deep sighs and groans, tears, exclamations,
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Death hath this also; that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy. —
The Essays 2007
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On the other side, nobility extinguisheth the passive envy from others, towards them; because they are in possession of honor.
The Essays 2007
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In like manner if the law impose a sum of money to be paid to him that has been injured, this is but a satisfaction for the hurt done him, and extinguisheth the accusation of the party injured, not the crime of the offender.
Leviathan 2007
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Erato, together with Persuasion, that brings along with it reason and opportunity, presides over marriages; she takes away and extinguisheth all the violent fury of pleasure, and makes it tend to friendship, mutual confidence, and endearment, and not to effeminacy, lust, or discontent.
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In many, a debauch ends in a dead palsy, when the wine stupefies and extinguisheth all the heat.
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Some of the later philosophers, that there is such a distribution of the lunar flame, that it gradually and in a just order burns until it be full moon; in like manner, that this fire decays by degrees, until its conjunction with the sun totally extinguisheth it.
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In many, a debauch ends in a dead palsy, when the wine stupefies and extinguisheth all the heat.
Symposiacs 2004
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Erato, together with Persuasion, that brings along with it reason and opportunity, presides over marriages; she takes away and extinguisheth all the violent fury of pleasure, and makes it tend to friendship, mutual confidence, and endearment, and not to effeminacy, lust, or discontent.
Symposiacs 2004
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