[f. L. ultimāt-, ultimāre: see ULTIMATE v.1 Cf. It. ultimazione.] The action or process of bringing to an ultimate result; final issue or development.
1791. H. Walpole, Lett. to Miss Berry, 23 June. As this must take its passage … early to-morrow morning,… I shall perhaps not know the ultimation, but you probably will before you receive this.
1805. Eugenia de Acton, Nuns of Desert, I. 117. The ultimation of their meditated kindness, was only to bestow upon her an indisputable right to the title of a penitent.
1858. Sears, Athan., III. ii. 258. The words heaven and hell, as they are used in popular speech, describe the complete ultimations of good and evil.
1883. L. Oliphant, Altiora Peto, II. 65. When a sufficient number have … attained a sufficient development for the ultimation of new results.
So Ultimatization. rare.
1885. L. Oliphant, Sympneumata, 117. Because of this abnormal ultimatisation of organisms in this subsurface world.
