v. Obs. [OE. fullęndian (= Ger. vollenden): see FULL adv. and END v.] trans. To end fully, accomplish, complete, fulfil.

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c. 900.  trans. Bæda’s Hist., III. xxiii. (MS. B in Smith 554, note). He bæd Cynebill … þæt he ða arfæstan ongunnennesse fullendode and ȝefylde.

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a. 1200.  A Moral Ode, 239, in O. E. Misc., 66. Þeo þat god werc by-gunne and ful-endy hit nolden.

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c. 1200.  Trin. Coll. Hom., 61. We hauen ure penitence fulended.

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c. 1300.  Beket, 2322. If he ful in feble stat, that he ne miȝte hit ful ende.

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1382.  Wyclif, Ecclus. xxxiv. 8. With oute lesing shal be ful endid the word of the lawe.

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1398.  Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., IX. iv. (1495), 349. The Cycle and the Course of the Mone is fullended in the nintenth yere.

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c. 1425.  Eng. Conq. Irel. (E.E.T.S.), 134. He that al thynge fulle endet.

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