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单词 be at an end
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to be at (an) end
12. The completion of an action; the accomplishment of a purpose: chiefly in phrases, to have an end, to make an end, to take an end, to bring to an end, to be at (an) end. Also, the acme, utmost reach. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > completing > [noun]
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chevisancec1330
applyinga1382
perfectiona1382
pointc1385
finishmentc1400
accomplishingc1405
complement1419
consummationa1425
effecta1425
performinga1425
accomplishment1425
fining?1448
complishing1449
complishment1454
achevisauncec1475
achievement1477
perfectinga1513
cheving?1518
furniture1529
achievance1531
exploiture1531
exploiting1538
perimplishment1554
consummating1555
finishing?1563
chevance1570
coronation1582
crowning1586
adimpletion1624
fulfilment1624
complusmenta1628
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completement1652
transaction1655
patration1656
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completion1657
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ultimation1791
finality1833
perfectuation1859
fruition1885
a1300 Cursor Mundi 25862 Þat þou mai noght do to end.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 27783 For drede þat he may noght mak end.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10127 Prophecies com al to end.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 8580 Al þat his fader be-gynne muȝt salamon til hende hit broȝt.
c1440 Boetus, Laud MS. 559. 10 Withouten hym may hit nought To an eande our purpose be brought.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) iv. 660 Feill anoyis thoill ȝhe sall, Or that ȝour purpos ende haf tane.
a1593 C. Marlowe Massacre at Paris (c1600) sig. A5v To bring the will of our desires to end.
1632 P. Massinger Maid of Honour i. i. sig. B4v To eate and sleepe supinely, is the end Of humane blessings.
1679 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation Ep. Ded. 3 To have been at the end of their designs.
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to be at an end
a. to be at an end: (of resources, etc.) to be exhausted; (of periods of time) to be completed; (of an action or state) to terminate. In corresponding senses, to bring to an end, to come to an end.
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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 22263 His rigning es brote til ende.
14.. in Tundale's Vis. (1843) 155 Then schulde oure trobul be at a nende.
1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido v. sig. F2 Our trauels are at end.
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 430 Speake for your selues, my wit is at an ende. View more context for this quotation
1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 55 in Sylva A Gard'ner's work is never at an end.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 284. ⁋2 Their affairs will be at an end.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xxxvii. 235 Will these years and years of misery come to an end?—shall we be free?
1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 47 This part of the festival was nearly come to an end.
1877 J. Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. (1878) 1st Ser. 198 Imposture must come to an end.
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