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ult.

American  

abbreviation

  1. ultimate.

  2. ultimately.

  3. ultimo.


ult. British  

abbreviation

  1. ultimate(ly)

  2. Also: ulto.  ultimo

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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My dear Mrs. Gary: I was truly grateful to receive yours of the 17th ult., and to know that after the lapse of thirty years I was not forgotten by those who were my pupils.

From The Life of Lyman Trumbull by White, Horace

We read in the Niagara Herald, of October 31, 1801, the following: "Died on the 6th ult., near Philadelphia, Captain Daniel Cozens."

From Toronto of Old by Scadding, Henry

G. R. Jones and myself found him in the Division hospital with his leg amputated above the knee, wounded on the 30th ult. by a chance musket ball.

From An Artilleryman's Diary by Jones, Jenkins Lloyd

If I understand his letter of the 24th ult., he is determined to march the army without delay into Middle Tennessee, leaving Sherman on his right flank and rear.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp

Colonel Gilliam, with the rest of the men, left here on the 20th ult. for the Dalles for supplies.

From A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information by Gray, William Henry

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