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completion|kəmˈpliːʃən|
[ad. L. complētiōn-em, n. of action f. complēre to fill up, complete.]
The action of completing or making complete; the condition of being completed or perfected.
1657Cromwell Sp. 21 Apr., They may tend to the completion of the business. a1744Pope (J.), He makes it the utmost completion of an ill character to bear a malevolence to the best men. 1752Johnson Rambler No. 203 ⁋6 It is necessary to the completion of every good, that it be timely obtained. 1841–4Emerson Ess. Manners Wks. (Bohn) I. 206 A plentiful fortune is reckoned necessary..to the completion of this man of the world. 1877Mrs. Oliphant Makers of Flor. v. 137 The past in its..stony completion is always a poor substitute for the present.
b. Accomplishment, fulfilment (of a prophecy, wish, etc.).
1659Hammond On Ps. Pref. 16. 1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. 283 Virgil's formentioned Eclogue; wherein there is..another completion of them [the Sibylline books] expected. a1716South (J.), All the divine predictions, receiving their completion in Christ. 1736Butler Anal. ii. vii. 353 The apparent completions of prophecy. 1842Tennyson Gardener's Dau. 234 That my desire..By its own energy fulfill'd itself, Merg'd in completion.
†c. (with pl.) A perfection, an accomplishment.
1662Bp. Gauden, in Chr. Wordsworth Documentary Suppl. (1825) 34 Your Lordship, in whom are all those completions which advance men to..love and high esteeme.
d. Law. In conveyancing: the conclusion or performance of a contract for the sale of a property.
1794F. W. Sanders J. T. Atkins's Rep. Cases Chancery (ed. 3) I. 12/1 The defendant in his answer says, that he had made frequent applications within the time limited for the completion of his purchase to the plaintiff. 1871H. Seaborne Conc. Man. Law Vendors & Purchasers xiii. 225 When the vendor is not present at completion to receive the purchase-money. 1893Times Law Rep. X. 76/2 The purchase was to be completed on January 1, 1887. If not then completed the purchaser was to pay to the vendor interest on the residue of the purchase money..until completion. 1910E. J. Harvey Land Law & Registration of Title xi. 141 The period fixed for completion may vary from three weeks to as many months, according to the magnitude of the purchase and the length of the title. 1927Law Rep. King's Bench Div. II. 89 All rents and periodical outgoings shall be apportioned up to the completion. 1946Law Times Rep. CLXXV. 379/1 In my opinion, in this contract the word ‘completion’ means the ‘complete conveyance of the estate and the final conclusion and arrangement of all matters’. 1964J. T. Farrand Conveyancing Contracts xi. 292 The completion ceremony tends to be a friendly affair. 1976S. R. Simpson Land Law & Registration p. xxxviii, Completion, a purchaser ‘completes’ a sale of land by preparing the deed of conveyance and tendering the purchase money; the vendor by executing the conveyance and giving the purchaser possession. 1986What Mortgage June 9/1 Previously, you would have to go to your bank manager for the 10 per cent deposit needed to secure your contract before completion. |