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单词 non ultra
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non ultran.

Forms: 1600s non vltra, 1600s–1700s non ultra.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin nōn ultrā.
Etymology: < classical Latin nōn ultrā not beyond < nōn not (see non- prefix) + ultrā ultra prep. (see quots. 1589, c1600, and ne plus ultra n.). N.E.D. (1907) notes that this was formerly the name of a walk in Oxford (see A. Wood Surv. Antiq. City of Oxf. (1889) I. 344, 576; (1899) III. 221).
Obsolete.
A furthest point or limit; = ne plus ultra n. 1a.
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1589 R. Greene Ciceronis Amor Ep. Ded. sig. A2 Suche as read Non vltra, on Hercules pillers.
c1600 Timon (1980) i. iv. 11 At Gades I washt away Non Vltra writt with Hercules owne hand.]
?1606 Trag. Cæsar & Pompey ii. iv. sig. D2 Heere will I pitch the pillars of my fame, Heere the non vltra of my labors write.
1611 B. Jonson Char. Authour in T. Coryate Crudities sig. b3v To giue the Non vltra of him in a word, he is so Substantiue an Author as will stand by himselfe.
a1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 354 I left this Ode..as the Non ultra of my Travells.
1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal iv. 34 Is not that good language now? is not that elevate? It's my non ultra, I gad.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) i. 11 Let not the Law of thy Country be the non ultra of thy Honesty.
1704 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World II. vii. 357 Now light is at our journey's end, arrived at its non ultra, there being no part..disposed to transmit it any further.
1758 J. Reed Madrigal & Trulletta i. i. 5 This may be stiled, in Mr. Bayes's phrase, the poetical non ultra.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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