aftermost

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English

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Etymology

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From Old English æftemest.

Adjective

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aftermost (not comparable)

  1. (nautical) Nearest the stern of a vessel.
    Synonym: hindmost
    Antonym: foremost
  2. (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.

Adverb

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aftermost (not comparable)

  1. (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.