With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at thisperiod of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.
My sufferings, physical and mental, are more than I can bear, and when such small arrangements as I have to make for your future well-being are completed it is my intention to put aperiod to them.
(archaic) Anend orconclusion; the final point of a process, a state, an event, etc.[from 16th c.]
1590,Robert Greene, “The Shepheards Tale”, inGreenes Mourning Garment[1], London: Thomas Newman, page17:
As thus all gazed on hir, so she glaunced hir lookes on all, surueying them as curiously, as they noted hir exactly, but at last she set downe herperiod on the face ofAlexis[…]
All comes to oneperiod, whether man make an end of himſelfe, or whether he endure-it[…].
1629,John Beaumont, “A Description of Love”, inBosworth-field with a Taste of the Variety of Other Poems[2], London: Henry Seile, page100:
When Loue thus in his Center ends, Desire and Hope, his inward friends Are shaken off: while Doubt and Griefe, The weakest giuers of reliefe, Stand in his councell as the chiefe: And now he to hisperiod brought, From Loue becomes some other thought.
1651,William Cartwright,The Ordinary[3], London: Humphrey Moseley, act III, scene 5, page51:
Set up an hour-glasse; hee’l go on untill The last sand make hisPeriod.
a.1667,Jeremy Taylor, “Advent Sunday Dooms-Day Book: Or, Christ’s Advent to Judgement”, inἘνιαυτος: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays Of the Year, London: R. Norton, published1673,page 8:
[…]and yet this is but the ἀρχή ὠδίνων, the Beginning of those evils which shall never End till eternity hath aperiod[…]
1667,John Milton, “Book X”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC, lines1537–1539:
So ſpake th’ ArchangelMichael, then paus’d, / As at the Worlds greatperiod ; and our Sire / Replete with joy and wonder thus repli’d.
(rhetoric) A completesentence, especially one expressing a single thought or making a balanced, rhythmic whole.[from 16th c.]
that such iron moulds as these shall have autority to knaw out the choicestperiods of exquisitest books, and to commit such a treacherous fraud against the orphan remainders of worthiest men after death, the more sorrow will belong to that haples race of men, whose misfortune it is to have understanding.
He writhed for twenty minutes under the flowery and eulogisticperiods of the president, and rose himself in the state of confused indignation which the Briton feels when he is publicly approved.
Polyclonal antibodies were prepared against theperiod gene product, which influences biological rhythms in D. melanogaster, by using small synthetic peptides from the per sequence as immunogens.
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Designating anything from a givenhistorical era.(Can we add anexample for this sense?)
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Evoking, or appropriate for, a particular historical period, especially through the use of elaborate costumes and scenery.
aperiod piece
2004, Mark Singer,Somewhere in America, Houghton Mifflin, page70:
As the guests arrived — there were about a hundred, a majority inperiod attire — I began to feel out of place in my beige summer suit, white shirt, and red necktie. Then I got over it. I certainly didn't suffer from Confederate-uniform envy.
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Period in theEncyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)