overmost

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

over +‎ -most

Adjective[edit]

overmost (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Over the rest in authority; above all others; highest.
    • 1900, F. S. Ellis, The Golden Legend, translation of original by Jacobus de Varagine:
      shaving which is on the overmost part part of the head signifieth that between God and them ought to be nothing ne mean that should displease

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for overmost”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)