To drawe out: to prolong: to deferre: to ridde or dispatche out of. Aculeos corpore extrahere, Vide ACVLEVS. A vita extrahere aliquem. Seneca. To rid out of life. Extrahere vi aliquem in publicum. Liuius. To drawe out by force. Extrahere serpentes cantu. Plin. To allure forth. Telum è corpore extrahere. Cic. To pull out of. Extrahere venena corpori. Plin. Extrahere se ex aliquo negotio. Ter. To ridde or get hymselfe out of a businesse. Extrahere ex animis assensionem. Cicero. To dissuade them from agreeing. Tollere atque extrahere cupiditates radicitus. Cic. Radicitus ex animis religionem extraxit Epicurus. Cicero. Pincked out of mens mindes. Rem aliquam ab aduersarijs varijs calumnijs extrahere. Cicero. Extrahere scelus aliquod in lucem ex ocultis tenebris. Liu. To discouer or bring to knowledge a wicked acce. Secreta mentis extrahere. Sen. To constraine: to vtter his secreate thoughts. Extrahere diem. Cæs. To prolong or deferre from daye to day. Extrahere in annum rem aliquam. Liu. To prolong or delaye a whole yeare. Extrahere remaliquam per aliquot dies. Liu. To prolong or delay for the space of certaine daies. Extractum certamen vsque ad noctem. Liuius. The battaile was continued till night. Mortem extrahit vates dulci testudine. Valer. Flac. He prolongeth death. Pugnam in posterum extrahere. Tacit. To continue fighting after other. In infinitum aliquid extrahere. Quint. Extrahere iudicium. Paulus. To deferre the iudgement. Extrahere aliquem. Liuius. To bring or drawe one by perfuasion.

I. Lit.

A. In gen.: rete ex aqua, Plaut. Rud. 4, 4, 124: telum e corpore, Cic. Rosc. Am. 7, 19: gladium e vulnere, Quint. 4, 2, 13; for which: telum de vulnere, Ov. M. 12, 119: vivum puerum alvo, Hor. A. P. 340; cf.: filium exsecto ventre, Dig. 5, 2, 6: spinas, venena corpori, Plin. 28, 18, 76, 245; 7, 2, 2, 13; cf.: anulum sibi deficienti, Suet. Tit. 73: ut sine labore hanc (aquam) extraxi! Plaut. Rud. 2, 5, 4: vires humerorum (natae) ad aratra extrahenda, to draw forward, draw, Cic. N. D. 2, 63, 159.—With personal objects: aliquem e latebra, Suet. Vit. 17; cf.: extrahitur domo latitans Oppianicus a Manilio, Cic. Clu. 13, 39: rure in urbem, Hor. S. 1, 1, 11: senatores vi in publicum, Liv. 26, 13, 1: hostes invitos in aciem, id. 8, 29, 11: aliquem turba oppositis humeris, Hor. S. 2, 5, 94.—

B. Esp., med. t. t.

1. Dentis extrahere, i. e. by medicinal means, Plin. 32, 7, 26, 79 (cf.: dentem evellere, i. e. by force).—

2. Of cuppingglasses: sanguinem extrahere, Cels. 2, 11 init.—

II. Trop.

A. In gen., to withdraw, extricate, release; to draw out, extract, eradicate: urbem ex periculis maximis, Cic. Sest. 4, 11; cf.: me inde, Ter. Ph. 1, 4, 3: nescis, Parmeno, Quantum hodie profueris mihi et ex quanta aerumna extraxeris, id. Hec. 5, 4, 36: imbecilliores adjuvabit malisque opinionibus extrahet, Sen. Ep. 95 med.: se rebus humanis, to take one's own life, Dig. 21, 1, 23, 3: (scelera) ex occultis tenebris in lucem, Liv. 39, 16, 11: secreta mentis (verberum vis), Sen. Hippol. 884: Epicurus ex animis hominum extraxit radicitus religionem, Cic. N. D. 1, 43, 121; id. Ac. 2, 34, 108: cf.: hunc errorem, quasi radicem malorum omnium, stirpitus philosophia se extracturam pollicetur, id. Tusc. 4, 38, 83.—

B. In partic., of time, to draw out, protract, prolong: res variis calumniis, Cic. Fam. 1, 4, 1: se tergiversando in adventum ejus rem extracturum, Liv. 34, 46, 5: certamen usque ad noctem, id. 4, 41, 5: pugnam in posterum, Tac. A. 4, 73: bellum in tertium annum, Liv. 3, 2, 2: somnum plerumque in diem, Tac. G. 22: has materias in infinitum, Quint. 4, 1, 43: dicendi morā dies, Caes. B. C. 1, 32, 3: triduum disputationibus, id. ib. 1, 33, 3: diem de die, Sen. Ben. 2, 5 fin.: primum tempus noctis, Caes. B. C. 3, 28, 5: aestatem, id. B. G. 5, 22, 4; Liv. 32, 9, 10 et saep.: eludi atque extrahi se multitudo putare, Liv. 2, 23, 13; cf.: populumque ducesque incertis, Stat. Th. 3, 575: mentem, id. ib. 1, 323.