Defn: Most remote; furthest; final; last. Ultima ratio Etym: [L.], the last reason or argument; the last resort. — Ultima Thule. [L.] See Thule.
ULTIMA
Ul"ti*ma, n. Etym: [L., fem. of ultimus last.] (Gram. & Pros.)
Defn: The last syllable of a word.
ULTIMATE Ul"ti*mate, a. Etym: [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.]
1. Farthest; most remote in space or time; extreme; last; final. My harbor, and my ultimate repose. Milton. Many actions apt to procure fame are not conductive to this our ultimate happiness. Addison.
2. Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final. Those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we can not rationally contradict. Coleridge.
3. Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental; as, an ultimate constituent of matter. 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.
Syn.
— Final; conclusive. See Final.
ULTIMATE
Ul"ti*mate, v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Ultimated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Ultimating.]
1. To come or bring to an end; to eventuate; to end. [R.]