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ult.

American  

abbreviation

  1. ultimate.

  2. ultimately.

  3. ultimo.


ult. British  

abbreviation

  1. ultimate(ly)

  2. Also: ulto.  ultimo

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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New-York City, Dear Sir:— Your favor 24th ult. is received—contents noted.

From The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It by Hinton Rowan Helper

Under date of September 9 Miss Anthony sent a spirited reply: Yours of the 25th ult. has waited all these days that I might carefully consider it.

From The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

We read in the Niagara Herald, of October 31, 1801, the following: "Died on the 6th ult., near Philadelphia, Captain Daniel Cozens."

From Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding

A letter from Philadelphia, of the 16th ult., announces the death of Mr. Davenport, formerly lessee of the theatres on the Norwich circuit. 

From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Charles Mackie

My dear Mrs. Gary: I was truly grateful to receive yours of the 17th ult., and to know that after the lapse of thirty years I was not forgotten by those who were my pupils.

From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White

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