extimate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛkstɪmət/
Etymology: From Latin extimus (“furthest; outermost”) + -ate (adjective-forming suffix), modelled after ultimate. Extimus is the superlative form of exter (“on the outside, external, outer, outward”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs (“out”). Compare intimate.
Senses: examples: text: [I]f we could ſee the Soule her ſelf, we could know no more by her then ſhe thus exhibits to our eye: which perſonal figuration in the extimate parts thereof, that repreſent the Body, Face and Veſtments, may be attempered to ſo fine an opacity, that it may reflect the light in more perfect colours then it is from any earthly body, and yet the whole Vehicle be ſo devoid of weight, as it will neceſſarily keep its ſtation in the Aire.
ref: 1659, Henry More, “1. That the Better Sort of Genii Converse in Humane Shape, the Baser Sometimes in Bestial. […]”, in The Immortality of the Soul; […], London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC, book III, paragraph 5, page 412:
text: Nor then will this high flight beyond the ſupreme or extimate Heaven ſerve for any evaſion. For as much as we ſpeak of Bodies placed on this ſide of the extimate Heaven, and no Body can be found amongſt Bodies, but it will be circumſcribed by the ambient ſuperficies of the next Bodies about it, that ſuperficies of the ambient Bodies that do immediately compaſs the environ'd Body being its place.
ref: 1672, [Henry More], “His Answer to the First Paragraph”, in A Brief Reply to a Late Answer to Dr. Henry More His Antidote against Idolatry. […], London: […] J. Redmayne, for Walter Kettilby […], →OCLC, page 120:
text: But to give Mr. [Richard] Baxter his due, though the extream or extimate parts of this Paragraph, pag. 82, which you may fancie as the skin thereof, may ſeem to have ſomething of bitterneſs and toughneſs in it, yet the Belly of the Paragraph is full of plums and ſweet things.
ref: 1683, [Henry More], “Annotations upon the Discourse of Truth. […]”, in [Joseph Glanvill], [George] Rust, Two Choice and Vseful Treatises: The One Lux Orientalis; or An Enquiry into the Opinion of the Eastern Sages Concerning the Præexistence of Souls. […] The Other, A Discourse of Truth, […], London: […] James Collins and Sam[uel] Lowndes […], →OCLC, page 239:
text: Colour is the viſible quality of a Body, the Pythagoreans called Colour the extimate appearance of a Body; […]
ref: 1704, Plutarch, “[Plutarch’s Giving an Account of Those Sentiments Concerning Nature with which Philosophers were Delighted; […]] Of Colours.”, in John Dowel, transl., Plutarch’s Morals: […], 4th edition, volume III, London: […] Tho[mas] Braddyll, […], →OCLC, page 140:
text: The artist temperament—ah, the artist temperament, that asks nothing but the unlimited faculty of moulding the world into opportune impressions; that shrinks back from all things extimate beyond the repletion of each sense; that demands no commune with me, but as stuff for its beautiful exercises!
ref: 1895 May, G[eorge] W[arrington] Steevens, “Four Cameos: I. Nero”, in W[illiam] E[rnest] Henley, editor, The New Review, volume XII, number 72, London: William Heinemann, […], →OCLC, page 537:
synonyms: word: farthest
word: furthest
word: distant
word: far
word: far-flung
word: far-off
word: faraway
word: outlandish
word: outlying
word: out of the way
word: remote
antonyms: word: closest
word: nearest
word: distant
glosses: Most distant or faraway; outermost, uttermost.