ppl. a. [f. END v. and sb. + -ED.]
1. That has come to an end.
1598. Chapman, Iliad, II. 36. Euery ended yeare, Of Buls and Lambes, th’ Athenian youths please him with offrings.
1599. Shaks., Much Ado, I. i. 299. When you went onward in this ended action.
1677. Sedley, Ant. & Cl., V. i. (1766), 191. Let not his blood now stain the ended war.
1882. Ellen M. Taylor, Madeira, 59. In bidding the ended day farewell.
2. [From the sb.] With prefixed adj. or numeral: Having its end (of a certain kind); having (a certain number of) ends.
