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ˈnethermost, a.
Also 4 -mast, 5 -mest, nethur-, nethern-, 6 neathermost.
[f. as prec. + -most.]
Lowest, undermost, furthest down.
a1300Cursor M. 357 Þe neþermast es watur and erth. Ibid. 9248 Þat was þe nethermast step. c1400Destr. Troy 3084 Hir corse [was] comly.., As nobly to þe nethur-most as nature cold shape. c1468in Archaeol. (1846) XXXI. 334 The nethernmost part of the said candelstikes. 1535M. Coverdale Ps. lxxxvi. 13 Thou hast delyuered my soule from y⊇ nethermost hell. 1578Lyte Dodoens 340 The first and neathermost leaves are like the litle leaves of Plantayne. 1635J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Banish'd Virg. 216 The fairest of them..were on the nether-most of the staires. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 196 You may take the most remote Box..and place it the nethermost. 1715Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) II. 11 The middle of the upmost Wall ought to be perpendicular with the middle of the nethermost. 1814Cary Dante, Inf. xxiv. 37 Toward the mouth Inclining of the nethermost abyss. 1866J. H. Newman Gerontius i. 8 From the nethermost fire..Thy servant deliver. |