EXTRACTION

extraction. Extraction, n. a drawing out, lineage, descent

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Ex‐trac″tion (?), n. [[Cf. F. extraction.]] 1. 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. 2. Derivation from a stock or family; lineage; descent; birth; the stock from which one has descended. “A family of ancient extraction.” Clarendon.
3. 3. That which is extracted; extract; essence.
They 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.