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ˈundermost, a. and adv.
[under adv. + -most.]
1. a. adj. Holding the lowest place or position.
1555Eden Decades W. India Contents (Arb.) 45 The Antipodes whiche inhabite the vndermost halfe of the baule of the earth. a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. ii, The fall is greater from the first to the second, then from the second to the vndermost. 1665Bunyan Holy Citie 171 This Jasper is said to be one of the Foundations, and that too the first and undermost. 1771Encycl. Brit. III. 46 The advantage gained will be always equal to twice the number of pulleys in the moveable or undermost block. 1797Holcroft tr. Stolberg's Trav. II. xlvii, The scenes were of three partitions: the undermost of marble,..and the upper of..wood. 1838T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 986 A force sufficient to counter⁓balance this attraction of the undermost film.
b. absol. The bottom.
1822D. Wordsworth Jrnl. 22 Sept. (1941) II. 367 A girl, bare-legged, petticoats kilted to her undermost, of white flannel. 1876Mrs. Whitney Sights & Ins. 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.
1617J. Taylor (Water P.) Obs. & Trav. fr. Lond. to Hamburgh Wks. (1630) 85/2 A good featherbed vndermost, with cleane sheets,..another featherbed vppermost. 1665Phil. Trans. I. 45 These Crucibles are laid sloaping, eight under⁓most, and seven above them. 1709Berkeley Th. Vision §115 It is inverted, because the heels are uppermost and the head undermost. 1781Phil. Trans. LXXI. 391 Upon..holding it with the snow undermost, the whole of it adhered. 1825Scott Talism. iii, The assailant..flung himself above the struggling Saracen, and..kept him undermost. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiv. III. 396 The party indeed which had then been undermost was now uppermost. |