middlemost

American  

[mid-l-mohst] / ˈmɪd lˌmoʊst /

adjective

1. midmost.

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middlemost British  

/ ˈmɪdəlˌməʊst /

adjective

1. another word for midmost

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Etymology

Origin of middlemost

First recorded in 1275–1325, middlemost is from the Middle English word middelmast. See middle, -most

Example Sentences

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middlemost

Yakov considered the arrangement, his gaze flicking back and forth, before pointing toward the middlemost card.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

Now the upper cells were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.

From The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition by Arno C. Gaebelein

The outmost Fringe vanish'd first, and the middlemost next, and the innermost last.

From Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Sir Isaac Newton

In the middlemost Pile of Buildings, which is much higher than the two others, the Senate of34 Rome meets, and there Justice is administer’d.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz

Over the middlemost he placed Domitius Calvinus; Antony commanded the left wing, and he himself the right, being resolved to fight at the head of the tenth legion.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough

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