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▪ I. middest, a.|ˈmɪdɪst|
[f. mid a. + -est.]
Most central; in the middle.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. iv. 15 Yet the stout Faery mongst the middest crowd Thought all their glorie vaine in knightly vew. Ibid. ii. ii. 13 The eldest did against the youngest goe, And both against the middest meant to worken woe. 1593Queen Elizabeth Boeth. iv. pr. vi. 72 As..Circle is to the middest poynte: So [etc.]. a1645Habington Surv. Worcs. in Worcs. Hist. Soc. Proc. III. 417 East wyndowe..consystinge of fyve panes, in the myddest pane are no Armes. 1713C'tess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 29 Reputation, Love, and Death, (The last all Bones, the first all Breath, The Midd'st compos'd of restless Fire). 1840Lytton Pilgr. Rhine ii, The moon was..at her middest height.
▪ II. middest(e
obs. forms of midst. |