finishing-stroke Copy link • finishing-stroke: extrema s. ultima manus: he did not put the f.-stroke (f.-touches) to his works, m. extrema non accessit ejus operibus, Cic. Br. 33, 126: to give the f. to the war, bello extremam m. imponere, Virg. Aen. 7, 572. Phr.: to put the f. to a war, bellum commissum ac profligatum conficere, Liv. 21, 40, extr.: to a work, opus coeptum profligatumque perficere, Aug. in Mon. Ancyr. to put the f. to Iambics, iambos ad umbilicum adducere, Hor. Epod. 14, 8.