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单词 undermost
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undermostadj.adv.

Brit. /ˈʌndəməʊst/, U.S. /ˈəndərˌmoʊst/
Etymology: under adv. + -most suffix.
1.
a. adj. Holding the lowest place or position.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > low position > [adjective] > lowest
nethemesteOE
nethereOE
netherestc1350
lowerc1384
nethermosta1387
lowest1538
lowermost1547
lowmost1548
undermost1555
downmostc1600
bottommost1694
downermost1831
nadiral1891
1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde sig. bij The Antipodes whiche inhabite the vndermost halfe of the baule of the earth.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. ii. sig. Kk3v The fall is greater from the first to the second, then from the second to the vndermost.
1665 J. Bunyan Holy Citie 171 This Jasper is said to be one of the Foundations, and that too the first and undermost.
1771 Encycl. Brit. III. 46 The advantage gained will be always equal to twice the number of pulleys in the moveable or undermost block.
1797 T. Holcroft tr. F. L. Stolberg Trav. II. xlvii The scenes were of three partitions: the undermost of marble,..and the upper of..wood.
1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 986 A force sufficient to counter~balance this attraction of the undermost film.
b. absol. The bottom.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > low position > [noun] > lowest position
foota1200
bottomc1400
lowmost1578
lowest1640
undermost1822
1822 D. Wordsworth Jrnl. 22 Sept. (1941) II. 367 A girl, bare-legged, petticoats kilted to her undermost, of white flannel.
1876 A. D. Whitney Sights & Insights II. xiii. 429 Living..with keen, conscious pain at the undermost of everything.
2. Predicative, or as adv. In the lowest or lower place or position.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > low position > [adverb] > in lowest position
lowmost1578
lowermost1579
undermost1617
downermost?c1690
downmost1716
1617 J. Taylor Three Weekes Observ. in Wks. (1630) 85/2 A good featherbed vndermost, with cleane sheets,..another featherbed vppermost.
1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 45 These Crucibles are laid sloaping, eight under~most, and seven above them.
1709 G. Berkeley Ess. New Theory of Vision §115. 131 'Tis inverted, because the Heels are uppermost, and the Head undermost.
1782 Philos. Trans. 1781 (Royal Soc.) 71 391 Upon..holding it with the snow undermost, the whole of it adhered.
1825 W. Scott Talisman iii, in Tales Crusaders III. 74 The assailant..flung himself above the struggling Saracen, and..kept him undermost.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiv. 396 The party indeed which had then been undermost was now uppermost.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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