To kill or put to death; to destroy or cause the extinction of something.
From Latin 'enecare' meaning 'to kill' or 'to murder,' from 'en-' (in) plus 'necare' (to kill). It's an archaic or rare English verb with Latin legal and formal origins.
This word is so old and unused that finding it in a text is like discovering a linguistic fossil—it shows up occasionally in legal Latin phrases but has been replaced entirely by 'kill' and 'execute' in modern English.
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