outermost, a. (adv.)
Also 6 outter-.
[f. outer a. + -most (cf. hindermost, innermost); a later formation than uttermost, conformed to out, outer.]
Situated farthest out from the inside or centre; most outward; most external; extremest.
| 1587 Golding De Mornay xiv. 197 Descending downe to the centre of the world and mounting vp aboue the outtermost circle of it. 1665 Boyle Occas. Refl., Disc. ii. i, Those imaginary spaces, that are beyond the outermost part of the outermost Heaven. 1768–74 Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 114 The angle formed by the two outermost lines. 1864 Bowen Logic vii. 186 Circles of which the outermost and largest indicates the Predicate of the Conclusion. |
b. as adv. In the most outward position.
| 1858 Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. II. 154 When the material embodiment presents itself outermost. |