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expiry|ɛkˈspaɪərɪ|
[f. expire v. + -y.]
1. Dying, death; = expiration 4. Also fig. of an immaterial thing: Destruction, extinction. rare.
c1790Burns Let. to Grose Wks. 1856 III. 152 About the time nature puts on her sables to mourn the expiry of the cheerful day. 1803W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. I. 260 Ancient history ought..not to cease with the expiry of the Roman empire. 1855Bailey Mystic 131 But, on expiry, the rebellious soul Shall other bodies enter. 1864Pusey Daniel ii. 62 Men had witnessed..the inherent vitality of the Gospel. They predicted the date of its expiry.
2. Close, termination, end; = expiration 5.
a. of a period of time.
1752J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 272 No Decreet shall be extracted till after the Expiry of six free Days. 1862Smiles Engineers II. 108 A lease..renewable at the expiry of that term. 1878Black Green Past. xxxii. 254 At the expiry of her year of banishment.
b. of anything that lasts a certain time, as a contract, truce, etc. expiry of the legal (see quot. 1861).
1807W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. V. 562 [He] left the situation..before the expiry of his indentures. 1828–40Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) I. 227 The truce was now within a single year of its expiry. a1847Chalmers Posth. Wks. I. 100 Previous to the expiry of the famine. 1861W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. s.v., Expiry of the Legal: is the expiration of the period within which the subject of an adjudication may be redeemed, on payment of the debt adjudged for. 1863Smiles Indust. Biog. 218 On the expiry of this contract the Government determined to establish works of their own. 1868Rogers in Adam Smith's W.N. Pref. I. 9 He returned [to Scotland] at the expiry of his exhibition [at Oxford]. |