a. He who or that which puts an end or termination to anything. Formerly also, He who brings a person to his end.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Knight’s T., 1918. Myn hertes lady, ender of my lyf!
1587. Turberv., Trag. T. (1837), 193. The day thou sawste me last, Was ender of my life.
1612. Rowlands, More Knaues Yet, D iv. When the ender of all mortalls comes, Pale Death.
1675. Baxter, Cath. Theol., II. 131. The maker but not the ender of Controversies.
1879. R. K. Douglas, Confucianism, iii. 76. Destiny is called the giver and ender of life.
b. He who brings anything to completion.
1382. Wyclif, Hebr. xii. 2. Biholdinge into the maker of feith and ender [Vulg. consummator], Ihesu.
1413. Lydg., Pilgr. Sowle, V. xiv. (1483), 108. The hooly ghoost that is the ender and the fulfiller.
