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
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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.
The middlemost Row, which is the widest, is inclos'd with Ballustrades, and forms a pleasant Grass-Walk for Foot-Passengers.
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
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