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English
Etymology
From Old English æftemest.
Adjective
aftermost (not comparable)
- (nautical) Nearest the stern of a vessel.
- Synonym: hindmost
- Antonym: foremost
1644, Henry Manwayring, The Sea-mans Dictionary, London: John Bellamy, page 101:All the after-most part of the ship, is called the sterne (by a generall appellation) but most exactly considered, only the very outwardmost part abaft is the sterne;
- (obsolete) Most recent.
- 1653, Peter English, The Survey of Policy, Leith, Section 1, Subsection 1, p. 99,
- In this sense Aristotle’s words hold good, if he refer the former part of the fourth species to the after-most times and ultimat center of Heroicisme, and the latter part to the prior, though not to the first times thereof.
1663, Clement Barksdale, Memorials of Worthy Persons, Oxford, page 78:Now whiles I was taken up with these anxious thoughts, a messenger […] came to me from the Lord Denny […] , my after-most Honourable Patron, entreating me from his Lordship to speak with him.
Adverb
aftermost (not comparable)
- (obsolete) At the very back.
1627, Henry Ainsworth, Annotations upon the Five Bookes of Moses, the Booke of the Psalmes, and the Song of Songs, London: John Bellamy, Genesis 33, page 122:And he put the handmaids and their children, first: and Leah and her children, after; and Rachel and Ioseph, aftermost.