[f. END v.1 + -ING2.]

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  1.  That ends, finishes, or puts an end to; final.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 25863 (Cott.). To ending fir sal þou be send.

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1581.  Sidney, Apol. Poetrie (Arb.), 30. The ending end of all earthly learning, being vertuous action.

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1826.  E. Irving, Babylon, II. VII. 228–9. This ending act of judgment and desolation may begin!

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  † 2.  In intr. sense: Dying, near one’s end. Obs.

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1597.  Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., IV. v. 80. This bitter taste Yeeld his engrossements To the ending Father.

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  Hence † Endingly adv. Obs.

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1611.  Cotgr., Periodiquement, endingly, concludingly, or towards the conclusion.

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