Obs. See END sb. and DAY. Also 5 enday. [OE. ęnde-dæʓ, f. ęnde END sb. + dæʓ DAY. Cf. OHG. endi-dago (MHG. ende-tac).] The last day; the day of one’s death.
Beowulf (Gr.), 638. Ic … sceal … oþðe ende-dæʓ … minne ʓebidan.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 17. Þet he icherre from þan uuelnesse ear his ende dei.
c. 1200. Ormin, 5674. He shall att his endedaȝȝ Þurrh Drihhtin wurrþenn frofredd.
c. 1305. Edmund Conf., 580, in South-Eng. Leg. (1887), 448. And þou treweliche at min ende-day: art i-come me to.
c. 1340. Cursor M., 21063 (Fairf.). Quen þat [John] seye his ende-day comande neye … he did his graue to delue.
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., VI. iv. 80. And led hys lyf till hys enday.
