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   Ultimate , a. [LL. ultimatus last, extreme, fr. L. ultimare to come to an end, fr. ultimus the farthest, last, superl. from the same source as ulterior. See Ulterior, and cf. Ultimatum.]
   Farthest; most remote in space or time; extreme; last; final.
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   My harbor, and my ultimate repose.
   Milton.
   
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   Many actions apt to procure fame are not conductive to this our ultimate happiness.
   Addison.
   
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   Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
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   Those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we can not rationally contradict.
   Coleridge.
   
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   Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental; as, an ultimate particle; an ultimate constituent of matter.
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   Ultimate analysis (Chem.), organic analysis. See under Organic. -- Ultimate belief. See under Belief. -- Ultimate ratio (Math.), the limiting value of a ratio, or that toward which a series tends, and which it does not pass.
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   Syn. -- Final; conclusive. See Final.
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   Ultimate , v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Ultimated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Ultimating.]
   To come or bring to an end or issue; to eventuate; to end. [R.]
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   To come or bring into use or practice. [R.]
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