Definition of Extrection
Ex*trac"tion (?), n. [Cf. F.
extraction.] 1. The act of extracting, or
drawing out; as, the extraction of a tooth, of a bone or an
arrow from the body, of a stump from earth, of a passage from a book,
of an essence or tincture.
2. Derivation from a stock or family;
lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has
descended. "A family of ancient extraction."
Clarendon.
3. That which is extracted; extract;
essence.
They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest
efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred
them. Milton.
The extraction of roots. (Math.)
(a) The operation of finding the root of a given
number or quantity. (b) The method or rule
by which the operation is performed; evolution.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- the act of extracting or the condition of being extracted, especially the extraction of a tooth from its socket
- an extract obtained from a mixture or from a plant etc
- one's origin, lineage or ancestry
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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