a. [f. as prec. + -MOST; cf. EASTERMOST, EASTMOST.] Situated farthest to the east; also (nonce-use), of a character most essentially oriental.

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1830.  Lyell, Princ. Geol. (1875), II. III. xli. 418. The species are most numerous in the Easternmost islands.

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1859.  Smiles, Stephenson, 51. The railway … crosses this road close by the easternmost end of the cottage.

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1861.  Stanley, East. Ch., i. (1869), 5. Easternmost of all the Eastern Churches, easternmost in thought and custom always, and easternmost in situation also.

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1884.  Law Rep. XIII. Queen’s B. 675. The defendants’ colliery is the easternmost in the group.

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