a. Sc. ? Obs. Also 7 yonmest. [f. YOND a. + -MOST.] Farthest, most distant; farthest advanced, extreme, utmost; also absol. (the yondmost) = the uttermost.
1608. Burgh Rec. Glasgow (1876), 286. It is maist necesser that ane bulwork or butradge be bigit befoir the yonmest piller of the said brig except ane.
1640. R. Baillie, Cauterb. Self-convict., 3. They … at last have wrought their yondmost myne to that perfection, that it is now readie to spring under our wals.
1650. Montrose, in M. Napier, M. & Covenanters (1838), II. 539. That then you should have … entered into a League and Covenant with them against the King, was the thing I judged my duty to oppose to the yondmost.
a. 1653. Binning, Serm. (1845), 468. A Christian assaulted with many temptations should unite his strength and try the yondmost.
a. 1658. Durham, Comm. Rev. VI. vi. (1660), 360. Death and the Grave came as the yondmost step of temporall affliction.
1716. Wishart, Theologia, 393. Here the Mercy of God is gone to the Yondmost.
