exstirpator

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

exstirpātor (ext-), ōris, m. [exstirpo],

I an uprooter : silvae, August. in Joann. Epist. ad Parth. Fr. 2, 8; id. in Psa. 95, 6.—

II Trop., a destroyer , waster : substantiae monasterii, Regul. Benedict. 31.