finisn.
/ˈfiːnɪs/, /ˈfɪnɪs/, /ˈfʌɪnɪs/, U.S. /ˈfɪnᵻs/, /ˈfɪni/ 1. The Latin word for ‘end’, formerly, and still occasionally, placed at the end of a book.Almost universally used in the earlier half of 19th century; in later books ‘End’ or ‘The End’ is substituted.
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society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > Latin word for 'end', placed at end of book
finisc1460
?a1400 Chester Pl. xii Temptation, Finis paginæ duodecimæ.]
c1460 Play Sacram. Finis.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. lxv Finis.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. iv. i. 277 Finis.
1697 J. Evelyn Numismata vii. 255 And now I have but a Word to add before I come to Finis.
1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 396 Finis.
2. Hence, the conclusion, end, finish; end of life, death.
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the world > life > death > [noun]
hensithOE
qualmOE
bale-sithea1000
endingc1000
fallOE
forthsitheOE
soulingOE
life's endOE
deathOE
hethensithc1200
last end?c1225
forthfarec1275
dying1297
finec1300
partingc1300
endc1305
deceasec1330
departc1330
starving1340
passingc1350
latter enda1382
obita1382
perishingc1384
carrion1387
departing1388
finishmentc1400
trespassement14..
passing forthc1410
sesse1417
cess1419
fininga1425
resolutiona1425
departisona1450
passagea1450
departmentc1450
consummation?a1475
dormition1483
debt to (also of) naturea1513
dissolutionc1522
expirationa1530
funeral?a1534
change1543
departure1558
last change1574
transmigration1576
dissolving1577
shaking of the sheets?1577
departance1579
deceasure1580
mortality1582
deceasing1591
waftage1592
launching1599
quietus1603
doom1609
expire1612
expiring1612
period1613
defunctiona1616
Lethea1616
fail1623
dismissiona1631
set1635
passa1645
disanimation1646
suffering1651
abition1656
Passovera1662
latter (last) end1670
finis1682
exitus1706
perch1722
demission1735
demise1753
translation1760
transit1764
dropping1768
expiry1790
departal1823
finish1826
homegoing1866
the last (also final, great) round-up1879
snuffing1922
fade-out1924
thirty1929
appointment in Samarra1934
dirt nap1981
big chill1987
the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > end or conclusion > [noun]
endc1000
endingc1000
finea1300
conclusion1382
ooc1384
close1399
finance1449
terminationc1500
last?1520
winding up1560
wind-up1573
wind-up-all1573
conclusure1578
clause1581
upshot1582
desinence1598
omega1599
Godspeed1606
finis1682
finale1786
finish1790
tie-up1829
Z1877
curtains1912
taps1917
1682 T. D'Urfey Butler's Ghost i. 47 To deck the Finis of his Face.
1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth IV. 328 Under this Stone lies one, who writ his Finis.
1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xx. x. 234 Next Year..must be the finis of this long agonistic tragedy.
a1871 T. Carlyle in J. W. Carlyle Lett. & Memorials (1883) III. 200 Fast falling into imbecility and finis, poor man.
1874 H. W. Longfellow in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) III. 223 Though that may be the proper finis of the book.
3. End in view, ultimate destination. rare.
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the mind > will > intention > [noun] > intention or purpose > end, purpose, or object > ultimate
sum1340
determination1646
bournec1800
ultimatum1804
finis1850
finality1859
telos1904
1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets v. 23 Which is itself a finis or kind of goal.
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