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ulterior, a. and n.|ʌlˈtɪərɪə(r)|
[a. L. ulterior further, more distant, comp. of *ulter (cf. ultrā, ultrō advs.) that is beyond. Hence also It. ulteriore, Sp. and Pg. ulterior, F. ultérieur (16th c.).]
A. adj.
1. Lying beyond that which is immediate or present; coming at a subsequent point or stage; further, future.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. i. 49 If the prescription of time, and numerositie of assertors, were a sufficient demonstration, we might sit downe herein, as an unquestionable truth; nor should there need vlterior disquisition. 1661Boyle Style of Script. 211 The Ulterior Accomplishment of that Part of it [sc. Scripture], which once Promis'd God's People, that Kings should be its Nursing Fathers. 1816A. Knox Rem. (1834) I. 54 These changes were meant by Providence to subserve ulterior movements. 1827Jarman Powell's Devises II. 75 The principle which confers upon him the ulterior interest in the lands directed to be sold would seem to exclude him in the converse case. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. iv. 336 The request was only preparatory to ulterior measures. 1884Manch. Exam. 10 May 5/4 The attitude and disposition of those Powers, as bearing upon their ulterior action, necessarily enter into the question.
b. spec. Lying beyond what is openly stated, avowed, or evident; intentionally kept in the background or concealed.
1735Bolingbroke Study Hist. viii. (1752) II. 98 By reserving still a right of making ulterior demands, they reduced the Carthaginians at last to the necessity of abandoning their city, or of continuing the war. 1825T. Hook Sayings Ser. ii. Man of Many Fr. (Colburn) 86 Without any knowledge of her uncle's ulterior intentions on the subject. 1856N. Brit. Rev. XXVI. 197 There is no reason for suspecting him of ulterior designs of a deeper and more treacherous dye. 1877Froude Short Stud. (1883) IV. i. iii. 30 He was..the most unlikely..to have adopted a course so marked without some ulterior purpose.
2. Lying on the further side of a point or boundary; more remote in position.
1721Bailey, Ulterior, on the farther Side. 1798Phil. Trans. LXXXVIII. 167 This scale..containing three parallel lines engraven thereon, on the exterior and ulterior of which are three divisions. 1817Chalmers Astron Disc. iii. (1852) 68 To shoot afar into those ulterior regions which are beyond the limits of our astronomy. 1864Bailey Festus (ed. 7) 120 The thunderous bars Of Heaven's ulterior orb.
B. n. A further aim or end.
1843Chalmers in Hanna Mem. (1852) IV. xviii. 351 This will open..a bright and beautiful ulterior, to which every eye should be directed.
Hence ulteriˈority, an ulterior thing or matter.
1814Parr Let. to S. Butler 1 Apr., Wks. 1828 VII. 363, I shall say something about the ulteriorities, and you must sympathise and co-operate with me. |