ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.] Rooted out.

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1661.  Morgan, Sph. Gentry, I. viii. 118. Assailing him with Firre-Trees eradicated.

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1775.  in Ash.

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  b.  Her. (See quot. 1864.)

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1708.  J. Chamberlayne, St. Gt. Brit., II. III. x. (1741), 429. A large square Plate of Silver enamelled … Azure, an Oak-tree eradicated and fructed.

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1809.  J. Home, in Naval Chron., XXIV. 193. On oak tree vert, eradicated proper.

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1864.  Boutell, Heraldry Hist. & Pop., xi. 70. [Trees] if having their roots exposed, [are] eradicated.

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