final

Definitions

1. Last, final.
2. Last; ultimate.
3. Conclusive; decisive.
4. Respecting an end or object to be gained; respecting the purpose or ultimate end in view.
5. Expressing purpose; as in the term final clause.
6. Word-final; occurring at the end of a word.

Equivalents

Examples

“final solution; the final day of a school term”

“Yet despair not of his final pardon.”

“a final judgment; the battle of Waterloo brought the contest to a final issue⟳”

“Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.”

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