The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ultima \Ul"ti*ma\, a. [L., fem. ultimus last.] Most remote; furthest; final; last.
Ultima ratio [L.], the last reason or argument; the last resort.
Ultima Thule. [L.] See Thule.
Usage examples of "ultima ratio".
Such distinction does not apply to the strike on the Pentagon: it houses the supreme military command-the ultima ratio regmun-of capitalist globalization even if it entails, in the Pentagon’.
But it seems to me clear that the ultima ratio, not only regum, but of private persons, is force, and that at the bottom of all private relations, however tempered by sympathy and all the social feelings, is a justifiable self-preference.
The Christian, that ultima ratio of lying, is the Jew all over again--he is threefold the Jew.
If Captain Aubrey were to turn his cannon - the ultima ratio regum, and of other bullies - on Professor Graham, the truth would remain unaltered.