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farthest, a. and adv.|ˈfɑːðɪst|
Also 4 ferþest, ferdest, 5–7 fardest.
[var. of furthest; used as superlative of far: see farther.]
A. adj.
1. Most distant or remote. Also with off.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. v. 239 Þe ferthest ende of norfolke. 1398Trevisa Barth De. P.R. iv. i. (1495) 78 The fyre that is ferdest from the mydle of the erthe. 1474Caxton Chesse 156 The fardest ligne of theschequer. 1549Latimer 4th Serm. bef. Edw. VI (Arb.) 121 He was a manne the fardest frome the feare of God that euer I knewe. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xli. (1611) 266 Which wee..imagine to be fardest off. 1622Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 222 The Prouerbe is true, That he who is farthest from his goods, is neerest to his losse. 1671Milton P.R. iii. 397 And that time for thee Were better farthest off. 1726tr. Gregory's Astron. I. 11 If it be most Direct and farthest off the Earth. 1777Sir W. Jones Poems & Ess. 179 The farthest limits of the kingdom. 1823H. J. Brooke Introd. Crystallogr. 31 With the edge at which those planes meet, the farthest from you.
2. Extending to the greatest distance, longest.
1633T. James Voy. 109 In Nauigation, the farthest way about. 1878Stevenson Inland Voy., It was the farthest piece of travel accomplished.
3. absol. at (the) farthest:
a. of space: At the greatest distance.
b. of future time: At latest.
c. of degree: At the outside.
1596Shakes. Merch. V. ii. ii. 122 Let it be so hasted that supper be readie at the farthest by fiue of the clocke. 1661Cowley Prop. Adv. Exp. Philos., Within one, two or (at farthest) three miles of London. 1670Narborough Jrnl. in Acc. Sev. Late Voy. i. (1711) 33 When I was at the farthest..I could not see any sign of People. 1765Chesterfield Lett. cccli. (1774) IV. 221 You may depend upon what I promised you, before Midsummer next, at farthest.
B. adv. To or at the greatest distance. Also with off.
1598Yong Diana 174 Sometimes striuing who could smite a stone fardest with them. 1607Tourneur Revenger's Trag. iv. I iij, Here's the comfort my Lord..When it seemes most it threatnes fardest off. 1667Milton P.L. i. 247 Fardest from him is best Whom reason hath equald.
b. Comb. forming the superlatives of compounds of far a.
1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) 282 In the farthest-fet construction. 1879E. Arnold Lt. Asia 10 The wisest one, The farthest-seen in Scriptures. |