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单词 netherest
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netherestadj.n.

Forms: see nether adj. and -est suffix; also Middle English netherrest.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: nether adj., -est suffix.
Etymology: < nether adj. + -est suffix. Compare Middle Dutch nederste (Dutch neerst), Middle Low German nēderst, Old High German nidarōst, niderōst (Middle High German niderest, niderst, German niederst), Old Swedish nädherster, niþarster (Swedish nederst), Danish nederst.
Obsolete.
Lowest, undermost. Also as n.In quots. c1350 and a1400 functionally equivalent to a noun meaning ‘lowest place’.
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the world > space > relative position > low position > [adjective] > lowest
nethemesteOE
nethereOE
netherestc1350
lowerc1384
nethermosta1387
lowest1538
lowermost1547
lowmost1548
undermost1555
downmostc1600
bottommost1694
downermost1831
nadiral1891
c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) cxxxviii. 14 (MED) My substaunce is in þe neþerest of þerþe.
a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) cxxxviii. 14 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 266 (MED) Þou made..þe staþelnes ofe me In nethereste ofe erthe to be.
?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) i. pr. i. l. 50 In þe neþerest [e] hem or bordure of þese cloþes.
1417 in J. Raine Vol. Eng. Misc. N. Counties Eng. (1890) 12 Un to the netherest stake safe ane.
c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 281 (MED) False cristene men schul be nethirest in helle.
1556 N. Grimald in tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties Pref. sig. ¶viijv This lerning teacheth, so much to graunt the vitall parte, and the netherest.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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