aftermost
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English æftemest.
Adjective
[edit]aftermost (not comparable)
- (nautical) Nearest the stern of a vessel.
- 1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 4, in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano[2], volume 1, London, page 148:
- My station during the engagement was on the middle-deck, where I was quartered with another boy, to bring powder to the aftermost gun;
- 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “chapter 8”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC, page 68:
- […] at night I slept on a blanket thrown on the deck boards at the aftermost end of the round-house, and right in the draught of the two doors.
- (obsolete) Most recent.
- 1653, Peter English, The Survey of Policy, Leith, Section 1, Subsection 1, p. 99,[3]
- In this sense Aristotle’s words hold good, if he refer the former part of the fourth species to the after-most times and ultimat center of Heroicisme, and the latter part to the prior, though not to the first times thereof.
- 1663, Clement Barksdale, Memorials of Worthy Persons[4], Oxford, page 78:
- Now whiles I was taken up with these anxious thoughts, a messenger […] came to me from the Lord Denny […] , my after-most Honourable Patron, entreating me from his Lordship to speak with him.
- 1653, Peter English, The Survey of Policy, Leith, Section 1, Subsection 1, p. 99,[3]
Adverb
[edit]aftermost (not comparable)
- (obsolete) At the very back.
- 1627, Henry Ainsworth, Annotations upon the Five Bookes of Moses, the Booke of the Psalmes, and the Song of Songs[5], London: John Bellamy, Genesis 33, page 122:
- And he put the handmaids and their children, first: and Leah and her children, after; and Rachel and Ioseph, aftermost.