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to the end (that)
b. In phrases, for or to this (that, what, which) end, to no end. Also in conjunctional phrase, to the end (that); formerly also, †to the end to (with infinitive).Now somewhat archaic or rhetorical; the ordinary phrase is in order (that or to).
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138. Wyclif. Sel. Wks. III. 354 Han power of him to þise ende.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. v. 51 Ȝee schulle knowe and preve, to the ende that ȝee schulle not ben disceyved.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iv. iii. 171 The faders hadd dyuerce wyues..to thende whan one was wyth childe, they myght take another.
1558 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli Secretes Alexis of Piemount (1568) 64 a To thende they may al equally receive of the honnye.
1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. C4 To the end to peruse the Greeke Authors. View more context for this quotation
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 28 To which end, King Abbas, sends his Ambassadour to Constantinople.
1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. ii. 70 I am come forth to withstand them, and to that end will back the Lions. View more context for this quotation
1692 S. Patrick Answer to Touchstone of Reformed Gospel 187 It is to no end to look what St. Austin saith.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 305. ¶12 To the End that this College of Statesmen may be thoroughly practised in the Political Stile.
1728 T. Sheridan tr. Persius Satyrs (1739) iii. 47 Study..for what end ye were created.
1769 W. Robertson Hist. Charles V II. ii. 87 For this end, he summoned Luther to appear at Rome.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 170 For these ends, and for these ends alone, he wished to obtain arbitrary power.
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