completionn.

1657 O. Cromwell Speech 21 Apr. They may tend to the completion of the business.

1715 A. Pope in tr. Homer Iliad I. ii. Observ. 156 He makes it the utmost Completion of an ill Character to bear a Malevolence to the best Men.

1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 203. ⁋6 It is necessary to the completion of every good, that it be timely obtained.

1841–4 R. W. Emerson Manners in Wks. (1906) I. 206 A plentiful fortune is reckoned necessary..to the completion of this man of the world.

1877 M. Oliphant Makers of Florence (ed. 2) v. 137 The past in its..stony completion is always a poor substitute for the present.

1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms Pref. sig. (c)2^v Not satisfying our selves that they had their whole completion in or by the Prophet, but discerning every of us our own parts still to be performed and acted over in the Psalmists words.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 283 Virgil's formentioned Eclogue; wherein there is..another Completion of them [sc. the Sibylline books] expected.

1679 R. South Serm. Several Occasions 266 All the Divine Predictions receiving their Completion in Christ.

1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. ii. vii. 252 The appearing Completion of Prophecies.

1842 Ld. Tennyson Gardener's Daughter in Poems (new ed.) II. 30 That my desire,..By its own energy fulfill'd itself, Merged in completion.

1662 J. Gauden in Chr. Wordsworth Documentary Suppl. (1825) 34 Your Lordship, in whom are all those completions which advance men to..love and high esteeme.

1794 F. 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.

1871 H. Seaborne Conc. Man. Law Vendors & Purchasers xiii. 225 When the vendor is not present at completion to receive the purchase-money.

1893 Times Law Rep. 10 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.

1910 E. 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.

1927 Law Rep.: King's Bench Div. 2 88 All rents and periodical outgoings should be apportioned up to..the completion.

1946 Law Times Rep. 175 379/1 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’.

1964 J. T. Farrand Conveyancing Contracts xi. 292 The completion ceremony tends to be a friendly affair.

1976 S. 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.

1986 What 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.