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

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

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

I looked, and upon a stone which formed the lintel of the middlemost door I read T. H. 1630.

From Wild Wales The People, Laguage & Scenery by Borrow, George Henry

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 P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

Sure the middlemost was my husband, see if he have not a wen in his forehead.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

Finally, how they came to the three gates, in the middlemost whereof, hee remained amongst the amorous Nymphes.

From Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Dallington, Robert

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