ULTIMATED
Verb
ultimated
simple past tense and past participle of ultimate
Anagrams
• maltitude, multidate, mutilated
Source: Wiktionary
ULTIMATE
Ul"ti*mate, a. Etym: [LL. ultimatus last, extreme, fr. L. ultimare to
come to an end, fr. ultimus the farthest, last, superl. from the same
source as ulterior. See Ulterior, and cf. Ultimatum.]
1. Farthest; most remote in space or time; extreme; last; final.
My harbor, and my ultimate repose. Milton.
Many actions apt to procure fame are not conductive to this our
ultimate happiness. Addison.
2. Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by
all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
Those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we
can not rationally contradict. Coleridge.
3. Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or
separation; constituent; elemental; as, an ultimate constituent of
matter. Ultimate analysis (Chem.), organic analysis. See under
Organic.
– Ultimate belief. See under Belief.
– Ultimate ratio (Math.), the limiting value of a ratio, or that
toward which a series tends, and which it does not pass.
Syn.
– Final; conclusive. See Final.
Ul"ti*mate, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Ultimated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Ultimating.]
1. To come or bring to an end; to eventuate; to end. [R.]
2. To come or bring into use or practice. [R.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition