<span class="searchmatch">middests</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">middest</span>...
<span class="searchmatch">middest</span> (usually uncountable, plural <span class="searchmatch">middests</span>) Obsolete form of midst. <span class="searchmatch">middest</span> (not comparable) (obsolete) Situated nearest the middle; middlemost; midmost...
twain, the heremite, / And all the clerks and priests of less estate, // Did in the <span class="searchmatch">middest</span> of the camp unite / Within a place for prayer consecrate....
outer; utter. 1637, William Camden, Britain […] : The two Pyramides in the <span class="searchmatch">middest</span> whereof one was lately pulled downe by some that hoped, though in vaine...
→OCLC: , Folio Society, 2006, vol.1 p.68: So did the Ægyptians, who in the <span class="searchmatch">middest</span> of their banquetings, and in the full of their greatest cheere, caused...
upper end of the caske, fix but the tackle to them, and then the vessell will stand strait in the <span class="searchmatch">middest</span> to heave out, or take in without spilling....
See also: 'midst midest, <span class="searchmatch">middest</span>, middis, middst, myddest, mydest, myddis, myddst, mydst (all obsolete) From Middle English middes, midst, myddest (“middle”)...
murthered or assassinated (this word is borrowed from their name) in the <span class="searchmatch">middest</span> of his Citie, during the time of our warres in the holy land […]. (figuratively)...
London, page 149: A fayre Conduite of sweete water, castellated in the <span class="searchmatch">middest</span> of that warde and streete... "castellated, adj.", in the Oxford English...
that ſtupified and ſenceleſſe ſecurity, and hardneſſe of heart, in the <span class="searchmatch">middeſt</span> of feares and dangers: that degenerating and growing worſe and worſe, not...