middlemost
Americanadjective
adjective
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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Yakov considered the arrangement, his gaze flicking back and forth, before pointing toward the middlemost card.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
The middlemost of them is made and built as a direct line but perpendicular.
From The Mariner of St. Malo : A chronicle of the voyages of Jacques Cartier by George McKinnon Wrong
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
Each chapel held five bookcases, "two at the extremities, which are but half-cases, and three in the body, of which the middlemost is much loftier than the rest."
From The Care of Books by John Willis Clark
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
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