Definition of "finis" []

• The end; the conclusion: setbacks that wrote finis to our venture. (noun)

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• "May it not be that, in this generation, the word "finis" is being written to that conception which characterized the 18th and 19th centuries, and may we not he at the beginning of the new and different era of human history?"
• "In all things the word finis must be written in good season; self-control must be exercised when the matter becomes urgent; the bolt must be drawn on appetite; one must set one's own fantasy to the violin, and carry one's self to the post."
• "I wrote the word finis at the end of the sixty-eighth strip about a week ago."