The Collaborative International Dictionary
By-end
By-end \By"-end`\, n. Private end or interest; secret purpose; selfish advantage.
``Profit or some other by-end.''
--L'Estrange.
Wiktionary
by-end
n. 1 A private end or ambition; a secret purpose or design; hidden agenda. 2 An incidental or subsidiary aim or objective.
Usage examples of "by-end".
By-ends, and behold, as they came up with him, he made them a very low conge {conge'}.
To have other by-ends in good actions sowers Laudable performances, which must have deeper roots, motives, and instigations, to give them the stamp of Virtues.