ulterior

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Gallia ulterior is Gaul north of the Alps, as far as the Cebenna mountains.

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  1. adjective Lying beyond what is evident, revealed, or avowed, especially being concealed intentionally so as to deceive: an ulterior motive.
  2. adjective Lying beyond or outside the area of immediate interest.
  3. adjective Occurring later; subsequent.

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  • Always a singular People Poor George, careless of these ulterior issues, has always trouble enough with the mere daily details, Parliamentary insolences, Jacobite plottings, South-Sea Bubbles; and wishes to hunt, when he gets over to Hanover, rather than to make Marriage-Treaties. —  History of Friedrich II of Prussia
  • Hence a type of reflective egoism has taken the place of animal gratification, and the idea of ulterior benefit has succeeded to that of immediate pleasure The names associated with this theory of morals are those of Hobbes, Bentham, and the two Mills. —  Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics
  • We ought never to forget this example, which shows with what difficulty a new idea contrary to the classic theories of the period succeeds in coming to the front; but extenuating circumstances may be urged on behalf of the physicists Robert Mayer had a rather insufficient mathematical education, and his Memoirs, the Remarques_, as well as the ulterior publications, Mémoire sur le mouvement organique et la nutrition and the Matériaux pour la dynamique du ciel_, contain, side by side with very profound ideas, evident errors in mechanics. —  The New Physics and Its Evolution
  • It is only a section of a division of the art of war The study for officers is the art of war, specialising in Naval Strategy The true method of procedure then is to get hold of a general theory of war, and so ascertain the exact relations of Naval Strategy to the whole War is a form of political intercourse, a continuation of foreign politics which begins when force is introduced to attain our ends OBJECTS We seek our ends by directing force upon certain objects, which may be ulterior or immediate Immediate objects (also called "Primary") are the ends of particular operations or movements. —  Some Principles of Maritime Strategy
  • So soon as man ceases to be wholly immersed in sense, he looks before and after, he regrets and desires; and the moments in which prospect or retrospect takes place constitute the reflective or representative part of his life, in contrast to the unmitigated flux of sensations in which nothing ulterior is regarded. —  The Life of Reason
 

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  1. Latin, farther, comparative of *ulter, on the other side; see al-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French ultérieur = Spanish Portuguese ulterior = Italian ulteriore, from Latin ulterior, comparative of ulter, that is beyond. Cf. ultra-.
 

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