stirpĭtus, adv. [id.; cf. radicitus from radix], by the stalk, by the roots, root and branch, stock and stump (very rare). *
I Lit.: arborem transferre, Dig. 47, 7, 3, § 4. —*
B Transf.: barbam forcipibus evellere, Sid. Ep. 1, 2.—*
II Trop. (for the usu. radicitus), utterly : hunc errorem, quasi radicem malorum omnium, stirpitus extrahere, Cic. Tusc. 4, 38, 83.