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Ul"ti*mate (?), a. [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.
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My harbor, and my ultimate repose. Milton.
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Many actions apt to procure fame are not conductive to this our ultimate happiness. Addison.
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2. Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
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Those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we can not rationally contradict. Coleridge.
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3. Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental; as, an ultimate particle; an ultimate constituent of matter.
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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.
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Syn. -- Final; conclusive. See Final.
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Ul"ti*mate (?), v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Ultimated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Ultimating.] 1. To come or bring to an end or issue; to eventuate; to end. [R.]
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2. To come or bring into use or practice. [R.]
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