ultima Thule

American  

[uhl-tuh-muh thoo-lee, ool-ti-mah too-le] / ˈʌl tə mə ˈθu li, ˈʊl tɪˌmɑ ˈtu lɛ /

noun

1. (italics) the highest degree attainable.

2. the farthest point; the limit of any journey.

3. the point believed by the ancients to be farthest north.

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ultima Thule British  

/ ˈθjuːlɪ /

noun

1. another name for Thule

2. any distant or unknown region

3. a remote goal or aim

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Etymology

Origin of ultima Thule

First recorded in 1655–65; literally, farthest Thule

Example Sentences

Only the coast survey had any adequate map of it; it was ultima thule to all intents, and treason might subsist in welcome upon it for a thousand years.

From The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth by Townsend, George Alfred

Since I last wrote to you I have been actually engaged in receiving and returning visits; for even to this ultima thule of all civilisation do these polite usages extend.

From Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation 1838-1839 by Kemble, Fanny

And yet these apparently insuperable obstacles have but stimulated men to do and dare all things, so that they might but reach that ultima thule.

From Doctor Jones' Picnic by Chapman, S. E. (Samuel E.)

Science is cumulative in its evidences, and it is somewhat hazardous to undertake to say, at any point, that the ultima thule of discovery has been reached.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 by Various

The supreme objective—the ultima thule of redemption—is— Immortality—the Christian eternally and incorruptibly embodied.

From Christ, Christianity and the Bible by Haldeman, Isaac Massey