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▪ I. ending, vbl. n.|ˈɛndɪŋ|
[f. end v.1 + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb end1: termination, conclusion, completion; † death, etc.
c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xiii. 39 Soðlice þæt rip is worulde endung. c1175Lamb. Hom. 71 God..ȝefe us..riht scrift et ure endunge. c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 10 Whan þe Kyng Kynwolf had don his endyng. 1340Hampole Pr. Consc. 34 Swa sal he [God] mak endyng Of alle thing. 1375Barbour Bruce iii. 276 To bryng All thair empress to gud endying. c1420Chron. Vilod. 1 And ȝeve me grace to breng to godde heyndynge. c1485Digby Myst. (1882) i. 324, I pray god bryng hym to an ille endyng. 1562Act 5 Eliz. c. 15 §1 (Ruffhead), The Expiration and Ending of the Statute. 1594Hooker Eccl. Pol. i. x. (1611) 33 For the ending of strifes touching matters of Christian beleefe. 1629Milton Nativity 239 Time is our tedious song should here have ending. 1655Fuller Hist. Camb. (1840) 139 Her death.. did not finally obstruct the ending of St. John's College. 1766Entick London IV. 34 The terms, or times for pleading and ending of causes in the civil courts. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) IV. 72 Every lease must contain a sufficient degree of certainty, as to its beginning, continuance, and ending. 1848Clough Bothie 1 The sports were now at the ending. 1868Morris Earthly Par. (1870) II. iii. 400 A fair ending crowned a troublous day.
2. The concluding part of a piece of work, a book, etc.; formerly also, of a space of time.
c1400Rom. Rose 2163 The book is good at the eendyng. 1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. iii. (1636) 88 Although we live in the latter ending of the world. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 114 The Dialogue fails in unity, and has not a proper beginning, middle, and ending.
3. The last part or termination of an organic structure: an extremity.
1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. & Ferns 232 With blind endings only in the growing-points and at the ends of peripheral branches.
4. The concluding part of a word, of a metrical line, piece of music, etc.; also, an inflexional or formative suffix.
1599Shakes. Much Ado v. ii. 40, I can find out no rhyme to lady but baby..for scorn, horn..for school, fool..verie ominous endings. 1814L. Hunt Feast Poets (1815) 7 But volumes of endings, lugg'd in as you need 'em, Of hearts and imparts. 1857Helmore Psalter Noted Pref. viii, Each of the Tones..has a variety of endings. 1864Reader, 24 Sept. 375 Replacing all the endings of its oblique cases by their prepositional value. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. Introd. 13 The want of case endings.
5. attrib.; esp. † ending-day, the day of death; † ending-post, the winning-post; ending-stone (U.S.), a particular kind of millstone (see quots.).
.. Chart. Thurkytel in Cod. Dipl. IV. 294 Bute he it ðe deppere bete er his ending day. c1320Sir Tristr. 1672 Her loue miȝt no man tvin Til her endingday. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cccxxxii. 520 At last came his endyng day. 1760R. Heber Horse Matches ix. 29 As she or they come in by the ending-post each heat. 1791‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsem. xv. (1809) 126 One was seen to arrive at the ending Post without his bridle. 1883E. Ingersoll in Harper's Mag. June 76/1 Now the ending-stones are encountered, which break the germinal point off each grain.
▪ II. ending, ppl. a.|ˈɛndɪŋ|
[f. end v.1 + -ing2.]
1. That ends, finishes, or puts an end to; final.
a1300Cursor M. 25863 (Cott.) To ending fir sal þou be send. 1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 30 The ending end of all earthly learning, being vertuous action. 1826E. Irving, Babylon II. vii. 228 This ending act of judgment and desolation may begin.
†2. In intr. sense: Dying, near one's end. Obs.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iv. v. 80 This bitter taste Yeeld his engrossements To the ending Father.
Hence † ˈendingly, adv. Obs.
1611Cotgr., Periodiquement, endingly, concludingly, or towards the conclusion. |