Definition of End matter

1. Noun. Written matter following the main text of a book.

Exact synonyms: Back Matter
Generic synonyms: Matter
Terms within: Addendum, Postscript, Supplement, Index

Lexicographical Neighbors of End Matter

end board
end boards
end bud
end bulb
end cap
end caps
end cell
end game
end games
end lap
end laps
end line
end man
end mark
end marks
end matter (current term)
end of
end of day
end of quote
end of story
end of terrace
end of the line
end of the road
end of the world
end on
end organ
end oxidation
end pieces
end plate

Literary usage of End matter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts: On the Most Interesting and by John Somers Somers (1748)
"... the People's Safety mutt needs be the principal or ultimate End. Matter Jenkins faith, That it cannot be faid tbe King ..."

2. The Philosophical Review by Sage School of Philosophy, Cunningham, Gustavus Watts, 1881-, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, Jacob Gould Schurman (1897)
"... and is, as such, the principle or cause which realizes the end. Matter, then, is no longer to be conceived as mere Matter, but as the incomplete Being ..."

3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In the philosophy of Descartes we meet with a dualism of miad end matter which does not easily lend itself to the conception of evolution. ..."

4. The Tribune Almanac and Political Registerby Horace Greeley by Horace Greeley (1893)
"... end matter wholly In print (not Included In second class), proof-sheets, corrected proof- sheets and manuscript copy accompanying tae same. ..."

5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... according to which the world is without beginning as without end; matter exists from eternity, in its smallest atoms as well as in its organic forms; ..."

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