Lewis Short
(adverb) : stirpĭtus, id.; cf. radicitus from radix
* By the stalk, by the roots, root and branch, stock and stump (very rare). *
* Lit.: arborem transferre,Dig. 47, 7, 3, § 4. —*
* Transf.: barbam forcipibus evellere,Sid. Ep. 1, 2.—*
* Trop. (for the usu. radicitus), utterly: hunc errorem, quasi radicem malorum omnium, stirpitus extrahere,Cic. Tusc. 4, 38, 83.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary