Radícitus, pen. cor. Aduerb. Pli. From the roote, or vppe to the roote. Herbas malas radicitus crui. Pli. Radicitus, per translationem ponitur pro Omnino.Plaut.Quite and cleane: vtterly: wholy: so that nothing is left: euen by the rootes.Cupiditas tollenda est atque extrahenda radicitus. Cice. Excutere opinionem radicitus. C. Ouite and cleane to take away an opinion from one.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
rādīcĭtus, adv. [id.], with the roots, by the roots (class.). I.Lit.: effodere herbas malas, Cato, R. R. 50: concidere rosetum, Varr. R. R. 1, 35, 1; Cat. 64, 288: evellere arborem, Suet. Vesp. 5: eximere, Col. 4, 33, 4: interire, id. 6, 3, 1: auferre ungues, Prop. 3, 7 (4, 6), 51 al. — II.Trop., by the roots, i. e. utterly, completely, radically: radicitus tollere atque extrahere cupiditatem, Cic. Fin. 2, 9, 27; cf.: extrahere religionem ex animis hominum, id. N. D. 1, 43, 121: excutere opinionem alicui, id. Tusc. 1, 46, 111: omnia malefacta vostra repperi radicitus,
