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Outmost

Outmost \Out"most`\, a. [OE. outemest, utmest, AS. [=u]temest, a superl. fr. [=u]te out. See Out, Utmost, and cf. Outermost.] Farthest from the middle or interior; farthest outward; outermost.

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outmost

a. 1 (en-superlative of: out) 2 Farthest outside; as far from the center or inside as possible.

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outmost

adj. situated at the farthest possible point from a center [syn: outermost]

Usage examples of "outmost".

On the left was a low ledge of rocks leading back to the narrow beach already mentioned, and the ledge came out to within a few feet of where the outmost boat on that side would pass it.

Thus they have an outmost and lowest which in itself is fixed and stable, within and by which the interiors can be held in connection.

Moreover, all interior or higher things are together in the outmost and lowermost, as was shown earlier in passages on the subject.

Every activity of the Lord is therefore from topmost and outmost simultaneously and so is in fullness.

But as the farthest and outmost things of nature as they are in themselves cannot receive the spiritual and eternal things for which the human mind was formed, and yet man was born to become spiritual and live forever, man puts them off and retains only those interior natural things which suit and harmonize with the spiritual and celestial and serve to contain them.

For reformation is effected in full, that is, in what is inmost and outmost, and what is outmost is reformed suitably to what is inmost only while man is in the world.

Moreover, men were men, who led the van in those days on the outmost lines of our march to the summit of the world.

The whole feeling was as if something had been finished in heaven, and the outmost ripples of the following rest had overflowed and were now pulsing faintly and dreamily across the bosom of the labouring earth, with feeblest suggestion of the mighty peace beyond.

It took me an hour and better to make my descent, moving quickly after I cleared the outmost perimeter of our guards.

Should borrow body and form and hue And tower in torrents of floral flame, The crimson bougainvillea grew, What starlit brow uplifted to the same Majestic regress of the summering sky, What ultimate thing -- hushed, holy, throned as high Above the currents that tarnish and profane As silver summits are whose pure repose No curious eyes disclose Nor any footfalls stain, But round their beauty on azure evenings Only the oreads go on gauzy wings, Only the oreads troop with dance and song And airy beings in rainbow mists who throng Out of those wonderful worlds that lie afar Betwixt the outmost cloud and the nearest star.

When he reached the outmost cage he sat down on it, and was rewarded for all his efforts with a clear view of the grounded but graceful ship.

Soders, where white snowfields faded up into foggy hills, Ged took the boat southward again, and now they entered waters where the great traders of the Archipelago never come, the outmost fringes of the Reach.

Martians and I jumped out on the shelving beach, hauled our boat up high and dry, and there right over us, like great green umbrellas, spread the fronds of the outmost garden of this strangest of all ship-building yards.

The spies of the tyrant sun Eagerly watch your plan, Lavish with bribes of gold, they run Down to your outmost man.

The colors which had come into it did not this time fade, but swirled to the outmost edge of the stone hungrily, as if that light wanted forth into full freedom.