Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Farthest east (of a series or row): as, the eastmost house on a street that runs east and west; easternmost.
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- adjective
Furthest to theeast ; mosteastern .
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- adjective farthest to the east
Etymologies
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Examples
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Struan was gauging the distance from the wharf to China Cloud and to the eastmost thunderclouds.
Tai-Pan Clavell, James 1966
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The two eastern bays of the main arcade of the choir are more elaborately moulded than the others, and round the eastmost pillar on the south side there is cut an inscription containing the names of John
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story
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It will be noticed how the cable moulding above the arches passes round some of the western vaulting shafts, and is cut away for those at the eastmost end of the nave.
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Two other _Side Chapels_ deserve to be mentioned, viz. the two eastmost on the north side, which were the first roofed with lierne vaulting.
A Short Account of King's College Chapel Walter Poole Littlechild
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It was the custom of the Norman builders to start building from the easternmost part of the church, as the more sacred part of the structure, and then build westwards; so that probably this foundation-stone, for which diligent search has been made in vain, was in the eastmost wall of the original Norman Lady Chapel -- in fact, the
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Then come the other three main arms, Kychistach, Trofimov, and Kischlach, and finally the very broad eastmost arm, Bychov.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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I have no distinct recollection of the thing myself, yet there is every reason to believe that I was born on the 15th of October 1765, in that little house standing by itself, not many yards from the eastmost side of the Flesh-Market Gate, Dalkeith.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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I have no distinct recollection of the thing myself, yet there is every reason to believe that I was born on the 15th of October 1765, in that little house standing by itself, not many yards from the eastmost side of the Flesh-market Gate, Dalkeith.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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But the other night comes a Highland quean of a lass, and she flashes, God kens what, out at the eastmost window of Mrs. MacPhail's house, that's the superior tenement.
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But the other night comes a Highland quean of a lass, and she flashes, God kens what, out at the eastmost window of Mrs. MacPhail's house, that's the superior tenement.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801
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