a. Obs. [f. EASTER a. + -MOST, in place of the earlier EASTMOST; cf. bettermost, uppermost, etc. Now superseded by EASTERNMOST.] Most easterly; situated farthest to the east.

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1555.  Eden, Decades W. Ind. (Arb.), 381. The eastermost tree is the hyghest.

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1614.  Raleigh, Hist. World, II. 287. The … Easter-most Hils of Tyre.

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1704.  Collect. Voy. & Trav., III. 51/2. The bigger Island … is the Eastermost.

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1832.  J. C. Hare, in Philological Museum, I. 175. The eastermost Pelasgian country on the Propontis.

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