▪ I. ender, n.
(ˈɛndə(r))
[f. end v. + -er.]
He who or that which ends. a. He who or that which puts an end or termination to anything. Formerly also, He who brings a person to his end.
| c 1386 Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1918 Myn hertes lady, ender of my lyf! 1587 Turberv. Trag. T. (1837) 193 The day thou sawste me last, Was ender of my life. 1612 Rowlands More Knaues Yet 27 When the ender of all mortals comes, Pale death. 1675 Baxter Cath. Theol. ii. 131 The maker but not the ender of Controversies. 1879 R. K. Douglas Confucianism iii. 76 Destiny is called the giver and ender of life. |
b. He that brings anything to completion.
| 1382 Wyclif Hebr. xii. 2 Biholdinge into the maker of feith and ender [Vulg. consummator], Ihesu. 1413 Lydg. Pilgr. Sowle v. xiv. (1483) 108 The hooly ghoost that is the ender and the fulfiller. |
▪ II. † ˈender, a. Obs.
Forms: 3–4 endir, -ur, 5 endyr, 3–5 ender. Also 5 endurs, endris, enderes, endyrs, Sc. andyrs.
[app. a. or f. ON. endr adv., ‘formerly, else, again’, corresp. to Goth. andiz-(uh) ‘either’ (conj.), and perh. to dial. Ger. ender, ehnder ‘before, sooner’; the OTeut. type *andiz is an adv. in the compar. deg. related to and. It seems probable that ender-day, ender-night, were originally compounds of the adv., though a trace of adjectival flexion occurs in the ON. compound endra-nær ‘at some other time’. The forms with final s are of obscure origin.]
Only in phrase, this ender day, night, year, indicating a day, etc. recently past.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 4561 Me thoght in drem, þis ender night, Þat i com in a medu slight. Ibid. 5672 Wil þou sla me als þou has slain Þis endir dai þe egypcian? c 1330 Arth. & Merl. 917 So Y slepe this ender-night Bi me lay a selcouthe wight. 1393 Gower Conf. II. 381 This ender day as I gan fare. c 1400 Thomas of Erceldoune 25 (Cambr. MS. c 1450) As I me went þis Andyrs day [Thornton Endres daye, Lansd. this thender day], ffast on my way makyng my mone. c 1440 Ipomydon 830 I am..the strange squyère, That servyd my lady this endris yere. c 1450 Guy Warw. (C.) 2828 He slewe my lordys sone þe emperowre This endurs day in a stowre. a 1450 Le Morte Arth. 1017 Thinke ye not on this endris day. |
Hence andersith adv. [OE. s{iacu}ð time, occasion], previously, beforetime.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 2110 Affrik..That andesith [Fairf. sum tide] was cald Libi. Ibid. 24268 (Gött.) Mi schepe er funden..Þat tint war andersith [Edinb. andersiþe]. |
▪ III. † ˈender, v. Obs. rare—1.
[? var. of enter; but cf. *ender implied in next.]
intr. To enter.
| c 1325 Sir Tristr. 323 Ysett he haþ þe long asise And endred beþ þer inne. |