ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ED1.]
1. In senses of the vb.: a. Brought to a conclusion, ended. b. Completed. c. That has passed through the last process or stage of manufacture or elaboration.
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, III. (Arb.), 93. At leingth kept he silence, with finnished historye resting.
1682. Creech, trans. Lucretius, 62.
| Else why should living Creatures, that arrive | |
| So near the gates of death, return, and live, | |
| Rather than enter in, when come so nigh, | |
| And end their almost finisht race, and dye? |
1801. Southey, Thalaba, VII. xxx.
| And from the finish’d banquet now | |
| The wedding guests are gone. |
1833. J. Holland, Manuf. Metal, II. vii. 185. It is not an uncommon thing for parties to purchase a finished stove, take it to pieces, and use the various pieces as models to cast from.
1857. Mrs. Carlyle, Lett., II. 338. I am reading the sheets to them—they most likely will not live to see the finished book.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), V. 7, Laws, Introduction. They seem to be rather the materials for a work, nearly but not quite complete, than a finished composition which may rank with the other Platonic dialogues.
1887. Daily News, 23 Nov., 2/7. Bleached and finished linens are in good request.
2. Consummate, perfect, accomplished.
1709. Steele, Tatler, No. 126, 26 Jan., ¶ 1. Lydia is a finished Coquet, which is a Sect among Women of all others the most mischievous, and makes the greatest Havock and Disorder in Society.
1718. J. Chamberlayne, Relig. Philos., Pref. (1730), 42. If not by finished Atheists, yet at least by unsettled and wavering Minds, who are not arrived at that Perfection of Wickedness, as to deny the Divinity of the holy Scriptures.
1831. Henslow, Lett. Darwin, in Darwin’s Life & Lett. (1887), I. 167. Not in the supposition of your being a finished naturalist, but as amply qualified for collecting, observing, and noting, anything worthy to be noted in Natural History.
1844. Disraeli, Coningsby, III. ii. Not one of those influences, the aggregate of whose sway produces, as they tell us, the finished gentleman, had ever exercised its beneficent power on our orphan, and not rarely forlorn, Coningsby.
c. 1850. Arab. Nts. (Rtldg.), 236. He possessed a countenance of the most finished beauty, his figure was fine, his air elegant and easy, and the expression of his face so engaging, that no one could see him, without instantly loving him.
