ˈyondmost, a. Sc. ? Obs.
Also 7 yonmest.
[f. yond a. + -most.]
Farthest, most distant; farthest advanced, extreme, utmost; also absol. (the yondmost) = the uttermost.
| 1608 Burgh Rec. Glasgow (1876) 286 It is maist necesser that ane bulwork or butradge be bigit befoir the yonmest piller of the said brig except ane. 1640 R. Baillie Canterb. Self-convict. 3 They..at last have wrought their yondmost myne to that perfection, that it is now readie to spring under our wals. 1650 Montrose in M. Napier M. & Covenanters (1838) II. 539 That then you should have..entered into a League and Covenant with them against the King, was the thing I judged my duty to oppose to the yondmost. a 1653 Binning Serm. (1845) 468 A Christian assaulted with many temptations should unite his strength and try the yondmost. a 1658 Durham Comm. Rev. vi. vi. (1660) 360 Death and the Grave came as the yondmost step of temporall affliction. 1716 Wishart Theologia 393 Here the Mercy of God is gone to the Yondmost. |