- Utter
- Utter Ut"ter, a. [OE. utter, originally the same word as
outer. See {Out}, and cf. {Outer}, {Utmost}.]
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1. Outer. ``Thine utter eyen.'' --Chaucer. [Obs.] ``By him a
shirt and utter mantle laid.'' --Chapman.
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As doth an hidden moth The inner garment fret, not th' utter touch. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
2. Situated on the outside, or extreme limit; remote from the center; outer. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
Through utter and through middle darkness borne. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
The very utter part pf Saint Adelmes point is five miles from Sandwich. --Holinshed. [1913 Webster]
3. Complete; perfect; total; entire; absolute; as, utter ruin; utter darkness. [1913 Webster]
They . . . are utter strangers to all those anxious thoughts which disquiet mankind. --Atterbury. [1913 Webster]
4. Peremptory; unconditional; unqualified; final; as, an utter refusal or denial. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
{Utter bar} (Law), the whole body of junior barristers. See {Outer bar}, under 1st {Outer}. [Eng.]
{Utter barrister} (Law), one recently admitted as barrister, who is accustomed to plead without, or outside, the bar, as distinguished from the benchers, who are sometimes permitted to plead within the bar. [Eng.] --Cowell. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
