ultimity
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin ultimatus extremity, from Latin ultimus the last.
Noun edit
ultimity (countable and uncountable, plural ultimities)
- (obsolete) The last stage or consequence; finality.
- 1631, Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- The constantest notion of .concoction is , that it should signify the degrees of alteration , of one body into another , from crudity to perfect concoction ; which is the ultimity of that action or process
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ultimity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)