The Collaborative International Dictionary
Utter \Ut"ter\, a. [OE. utter, originally the same word as outer. See Out, and cf. Outer, Utmost.]
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Outer. ``Thine utter eyen.''
--Chaucer. [Obs.] ``By him a shirt and utter mantle laid.''
--Chapman.As doth an hidden moth The inner garment fret, not th' utter touch.
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Situated on the outside, or extreme limit; remote from the center; outer. [Obs.]
Through utter and through middle darkness borne.
--Milton.The very utter part pf Saint Adelmes point is five miles from Sandwich.
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Complete; perfect; total; entire; absolute; as, utter ruin; utter darkness.
They . . . are utter strangers to all those anxious thoughts which disquiet mankind.
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Peremptory; unconditional; unqualified; final; as, an utter refusal or denial.
--Clarendon.Utter bar (Law), the whole body of junior barristers. See Outer bar, under 1st Outer. [Eng.]
Utter barrister (Law), one recently admitted as barrister, who is accustomed to plead without, or outside, the bar, as distinguished from the benchers, who are sometimes permitted to plead within the bar. [Eng.]
--Cowell.