Obs. [f. as prec. + -MENT.] End, finishing, completion; death.
c. 1340. Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight, 499. Þe forme to be fynisment foldeȝ ful selden.
1448. Will of Hen. VI., in Willis & Clark, Cambridge, I. 353. After the finisshement of the edificacions of oon of the same Colleges.
c. 1450. Merlin, 23. Merlyn began to telle of the fynyshment of Ioseph.
1559. Abp. Parker, Corresp. (Parker Soc.), 105. We would wish we were called for again to continue our humble supplication to the finishment and stay of that offendicle.
1648. W. Mountague, Devoute Ess., I. xviii. § 3. 336. None must undertake this edifice, but after computation of the pertinences requisite for the finishment.
