in law, is a consolidation or union, as where one has due to him a yearly rent out of lands, and afterwards purchases the lands out of which the rent arises; in this case, both the property and the rent being united in one possessor, the rent is said to be extinguished.

EXTRIPATION, (formed of ex and flirps, "root") the act of pulling up or destroying a thing to the very roots. Among the prayers of the Romish jubilee, there is one for the extirpation of heresy.

EXTRIPATION is also used, in surgery, for cutting off any part entirely; as a wen, &c. or the eating it away, as a wart, &c. by corrosive medicines.