midmostadj.n.adv.prep.

Brit.

/ˈmɪdməʊst/, U.S.

/ˈmɪdˌmoʊst/

Forms: Old English midemest, Old English midemist (rare), Old English–Middle English midmest, early Middle English middemyst, early Middle English midmæst, Middle English middemest, Middle English middemost, Middle English midemeste, Middle English midmast, Middle English midmeste, Middle English mydemyst, Middle English mydmest, Middle English mydmeste, Middle English mydmost, 1500s– midmost; also Scottish pre-1700 medmest, pre-1700 midmest, pre-1700 mydmast, pre-1700 mydmest.

Origin: Probably an inherited word from Germanic.

Etymology: Probably < the Germanic base of Old High German mittamo , mittemo the middle ( < a suffixed form (probably originally a superlative) of the Indo-European base of mid adj.; compare Sanskrit madhyama- ) + the Germanic base of -est suffix, subsequently reanalysed as < mid adj. + -most suffix. Compare middenerd n.Compare the partly synonymous Old English medemest, medmest (compare Old Frisian medemest), and (Mercian) medmast, superlative of Old English medeme, medume middle, middling, moderate (comparative medemra; compare Old High German metemo mediocre), from the same Indo-European base, but without -j- infix (compare Old High German metam- middle (in compounds), Old Icelandic mjǫðm hip, middle of the body, Gothic miduma the middle, Avestan maδəma- middlemost).

A. adj.

1. That is in the very middle (with regard to position, age, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > middle > [adjective]

middleeOE

midmosteOE

mid1273

mean1340

middlemosta1400

mediate?1440

moyen1481

median1592

intermedial1599

intermediate1648

mede1706

intermediary1788

the world > space > relative position > central condition or position > [adjective] > situated in the centre or middle > most central

midmosteOE

middesta1400

middlemosta1400

centremost1812

eOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Otho) xxxix. 130 Swa bioð þa midmestan men onmiddan þam spacan, & þa betran near þære nafe, & þa mætran near ðæm felgum.

eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. xlii. 254 Gif þu þa findan ne mæge læt of þære midmestan ædre.

OE Regularis Concordia (Tiber.) (1993) xlv. 92 In prima quidem oratione, tres psalmos primos cum oratione... In secunda, duos medioximus, sequentem [read medioximos, sequente] oratione : on þam forman witudlice gebede ðry sealmas þa forman mid gebede... on þam oþran twegen midemeste fyligendum gebede.

?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 27 Þanne sceal hym man læten blod on þan earme on þan middemyste ædra.

c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 685 Þre doȝtren þe king adde: þe eldost het gornorille, Þe midmeste [v.r. mydmost; B midemeste; v.r. mydemyst] het regan.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) 10023 Þe midmest [c1460 Laud mydmost] bailly of þe þre Bitokeneþ wel hir chastite.

1587 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1881) 1st Ser. IV. 205 Thai..hes dismemberit him..of the haill twa midmest fingaris.

1663 A. Cowley Christ's Passion in Verses Several Occasions iii My greedy eyes fly up the hill, and see Who 'tis hangs there the midmost of the three.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis x, in tr. Virgil Wks. 530 Proud Mezentius..rush'd into the Plain: Where tow'ring in the midmost Ranks he stood.

1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. viii. 270 High on the midmost Bark the King appear'd.

1798 Loves of Triangles 182 While the pressed bodkin, punched and squeezed to death, Sweats in the midmost place.

1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance xxix. 286 I am now at middle-age—well, well, a step or two beyond the midmost point.

1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 308 He compares it [sc. the Word of God] to the midmost branch of the golden candlestick.

1972 New Yorker 16 Sept. 30/3 As he spoke the midmost books [in the pile] escaped and cascaded onto the floor.

1983 P. O'Brian Treason's Harbour iv. 114 Pray be so good as to bring me a pair, together with a phial of styptic in the midmost rack.

†2. With partitive sense: (the) middle or midst of; = mid adj. 1a. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > central condition or position > [adjective] > situated in the centre or middle > middle of

mideOE

middleeOE

midwardeOE

half-way1694

midmost1807

1807 J. Barlow Columbiad vii. 264 Where York and Gloster's rocky towers bestride..Virginia's midmost tide.

1885 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche viii. xvii. 99 She sank Silently weeping on the temple stair, In midmost night.

1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid ii, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 124 High in the midmost city the horse pours forth from its side Warriors armed.

3. Most intimate; innermost.

ΚΠ

1846 N. Hawthorne Mosses i. i. 19 It comes flowing softly through the midmost privacy.

1913 R. Kipling Songs from Bks. 130 Yet in their midmost pride they knew.

a1916 H. James Middle Years (1917) v. 64 A hundred of the outward and visible signs of the author's own young rural and midmost England.

1991 Amer. Lit. 63 715 Bobby Lowell swallows a jewelry elephant (putting the coveted object in his own midmost regions).

B. n.

The innermost or most central part, the very middle. Now chiefly poetic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > central condition or position > [noun] > central part

midmostc1384

middlemosta1425

mean1688

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. Prol. 1 In the whiche gospel it is profitable to men desyrynge God, so to knowe the first, the mydmeste, other the last.

1728 A. Pope Dunciad ii. 407 From the mid-most the nutation spreads Round.

1865 W. G. Palgrave Narr. Journey through Arabia I. 102 A huge parallelogram, placed almost diagonally across the midmost of Arabia.

1865 A. C. Swinburne Dolores 333 From the midmost of Ida.

1905 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 367 We are made to feel the young girl's enjoyment..even in the midmost of her grief.

1908 K. Grahame Wind in Willows vii. 153 In midmost of the stream, embraced in the weir's shimmering arm-spread, a small island lay anchored.

1955 E. Pound Classic Anthol. ii. 142 I have held him in love so long From heart's mid-most be it song Not to be lost.

C. adv.

In the middle or midst. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > central condition or position > [adverb] > in the middle or midst

amidOE

tomidsOE

midwardOE

amidstc1300

in midsc1400

midc1425

midsc1425

in mida1500

midmost1700

amidmost1870

midst1883

midwards1892

the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > position of being among > [adverb]

amongeOE

imid1340

in (the) mids (of)a1382

midmost1700

the world > action or operation > doing > a proceeding > [adverb] > while something is in progress

midst1675

midmost1800

1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite iii, in Fables 68 The king goes midmost.

1725 J. Glanvill tr. Claudian in Poems 263 A wise Pow'r above, Who..midmost in the Centre fix'd of all Firm on its axis plac'd the earthy Ball.

1800 S. T. Coleridge tr. F. Schiller Piccolomini v. iii. 194 Then midmost in the battle was I led In spirit.

1865 A. C. Swinburne Chastelard i. i. 8 Lo there, He that walks midmost.

1892 ‘M. Field’ Sight & Song 13 Midmost of the breeze.

1903 J. London Call of Wild vii. 207 But for..the splash of white hair that ran midmost down his chest, he might well have been mistaken for a gigantic wolf.

1991 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 78 982 Freedom versus Tyranny,..and midmost, like a Janus-faced phantom in the air, ‘America’, real and ideal.

†D. prep.

In the middle or midst of. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1867 W. Morris Life & Death of Jason vi. 119 Midmost the hall, two fair streams trickled down.

1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise Apol. 2 Midmost the beating of the steely sea.

1892 Longman's Mag. Aug. 397 It stands midmost a marsh-country.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	midmost
释义	midmostadj.n.adv.prep. Brit. /ˈmɪdməʊst/, U.S. /ˈmɪdˌmoʊst/ Forms: Old English midemest, Old English midemist (rare), Old English–Middle English midmest, early Middle English middemyst, early Middle English midmæst, Middle English middemest, Middle English middemost, Middle English midemeste, Middle English midmast, Middle English midmeste, Middle English mydemyst, Middle English mydmest, Middle English mydmeste, Middle English mydmost, 1500s– midmost; also Scottish pre-1700 medmest, pre-1700 midmest, pre-1700 mydmast, pre-1700 mydmest. Origin: Probably an inherited word from Germanic. Etymology: Probably < the Germanic base of Old High German mittamo , mittemo the middle ( < a suffixed form (probably originally a superlative) of the Indo-European base of mid adj.; compare Sanskrit madhyama- ) + the Germanic base of -est suffix, subsequently reanalysed as < mid adj. + -most suffix. Compare middenerd n.Compare the partly synonymous Old English medemest, medmest (compare Old Frisian medemest), and (Mercian) medmast, superlative of Old English medeme, medume middle, middling, moderate (comparative medemra; compare Old High German metemo mediocre), from the same Indo-European base, but without -j- infix (compare Old High German metam- middle (in compounds), Old Icelandic mjǫðm hip, middle of the body, Gothic miduma the middle, Avestan maδəma- middlemost). A. adj. 1. That is in the very middle (with regard to position, age, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > middle > [adjective] middleeOE midmosteOE mid1273 mean1340 middlemosta1400 mediate?1440 moyen1481 median1592 intermedial1599 intermediate1648 mede1706 intermediary1788 the world > space > relative position > central condition or position > [adjective] > situated in the centre or middle > most central midmosteOE middesta1400 middlemosta1400 centremost1812 eOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Otho) xxxix. 130 Swa bioð þa midmestan men onmiddan þam spacan, & þa betran near þære nafe, & þa mætran near ðæm felgum. eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) ii. xlii. 254 Gif þu þa findan ne mæge læt of þære midmestan ædre. OE Regularis Concordia (Tiber.) (1993) xlv. 92 In prima quidem oratione, tres psalmos primos cum oratione... In secunda, duos medioximus, sequentem [read medioximos, sequente] oratione : on þam forman witudlice gebede ðry sealmas þa forman mid gebede... on þam oþran twegen midemeste fyligendum gebede. ?a1200 (?OE) Peri Didaxeon (1896) 27 Þanne sceal hym man læten blod on þan earme on þan middemyste ædra. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 685 Þre doȝtren þe king adde: þe eldost het gornorille, Þe midmeste [v.r. mydmost; B midemeste; v.r. mydemyst] het regan. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) 10023 Þe midmest [c1460 Laud mydmost] bailly of þe þre Bitokeneþ wel hir chastite. 1587 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1881) 1st Ser. IV. 205 Thai..hes dismemberit him..of the haill twa midmest fingaris. 1663 A. Cowley Christ's Passion in Verses Several Occasions iii My greedy eyes fly up the hill, and see Who 'tis hangs there the midmost of the three. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis x, in tr. Virgil Wks. 530 Proud Mezentius..rush'd into the Plain: Where tow'ring in the midmost Ranks he stood. 1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. viii. 270 High on the midmost Bark the King appear'd. 1798 Loves of Triangles 182 While the pressed bodkin, punched and squeezed to death, Sweats in the midmost place. 1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance xxix. 286 I am now at middle-age—well, well, a step or two beyond the midmost point. 1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 308 He compares it [sc. the Word of God] to the midmost branch of the golden candlestick. 1972 New Yorker 16 Sept. 30/3 As he spoke the midmost books [in the pile] escaped and cascaded onto the floor. 1983 P. O'Brian Treason's Harbour iv. 114 Pray be so good as to bring me a pair, together with a phial of styptic in the midmost rack. †2. With partitive sense: (the) middle or midst of; = mid adj. 1a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > central condition or position > [adjective] > situated in the centre or middle > middle of mideOE middleeOE midwardeOE half-way1694 midmost1807 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad vii. 264 Where York and Gloster's rocky towers bestride..Virginia's midmost tide. 1885 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche viii. xvii. 99 She sank Silently weeping on the temple stair, In midmost night. 1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid ii, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 124 High in the midmost city the horse pours forth from its side Warriors armed. 3. Most intimate; innermost. ΚΠ 1846 N. Hawthorne Mosses i. i. 19 It comes flowing softly through the midmost privacy. 1913 R. Kipling Songs from Bks. 130 Yet in their midmost pride they knew. a1916 H. James Middle Years (1917) v. 64 A hundred of the outward and visible signs of the author's own young rural and midmost England. 1991 Amer. Lit. 63 715 Bobby Lowell swallows a jewelry elephant (putting the coveted object in his own midmost regions). B. n. The innermost or most central part, the very middle. Now chiefly poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > central condition or position > [noun] > central part midmostc1384 middlemosta1425 mean1688 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. Prol. 1 In the whiche gospel it is profitable to men desyrynge God, so to knowe the first, the mydmeste, other the last. 1728 A. Pope Dunciad ii. 407 From the mid-most the nutation spreads Round. 1865 W. G. Palgrave Narr. Journey through Arabia I. 102 A huge parallelogram, placed almost diagonally across the midmost of Arabia. 1865 A. C. Swinburne Dolores 333 From the midmost of Ida. 1905 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 367 We are made to feel the young girl's enjoyment..even in the midmost of her grief. 1908 K. Grahame Wind in Willows vii. 153 In midmost of the stream, embraced in the weir's shimmering arm-spread, a small island lay anchored. 1955 E. Pound Classic Anthol. ii. 142 I have held him in love so long From heart's mid-most be it song Not to be lost. C. adv. In the middle or midst. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > central condition or position > [adverb] > in the middle or midst amidOE tomidsOE midwardOE amidstc1300 in midsc1400 midc1425 midsc1425 in mida1500 midmost1700 amidmost1870 midst1883 midwards1892 the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > position of being among > [adverb] amongeOE imid1340 in (the) mids (of)a1382 midmost1700 the world > action or operation > doing > a proceeding > [adverb] > while something is in progress midst1675 midmost1800 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite iii, in Fables 68 The king goes midmost. 1725 J. Glanvill tr. Claudian in Poems 263 A wise Pow'r above, Who..midmost in the Centre fix'd of all Firm on its axis plac'd the earthy Ball. 1800 S. T. Coleridge tr. F. Schiller Piccolomini v. iii. 194 Then midmost in the battle was I led In spirit. 1865 A. C. Swinburne Chastelard i. i. 8 Lo there, He that walks midmost. 1892 ‘M. Field’ Sight & Song 13 Midmost of the breeze. 1903 J. London Call of Wild vii. 207 But for..the splash of white hair that ran midmost down his chest, he might well have been mistaken for a gigantic wolf. 1991 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 78 982 Freedom versus Tyranny,..and midmost, like a Janus-faced phantom in the air, ‘America’, real and ideal. †D. prep. In the middle or midst of. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1867 W. Morris Life & Death of Jason vi. 119 Midmost the hall, two fair streams trickled down. 1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise Apol. 2 Midmost the beating of the steely sea. 1892 Longman's Mag. Aug. 397 It stands midmost a marsh-country. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.adv.prep.eOE
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