stirpĭtus
adv.
id.; cf. radicitus from radix
I.
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.