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  1. adverb In or of the month before the present one: on the 15th ultimo.

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  • As courteous travellers, we always asked for ultimo (the end of the line), but we quickly learned not to be surprised when middle-aged women simply pushed to the front. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • That aside, this is probably one of my ultimo, absolute pet peeves with the genre, when it is done like this. —  PunkAssBlog.com
  • Besides the loss which he sustained on the night of the 23d ultimo, which is estimated at 400, he cannot have suffered less between that period and the morning of the 18th instant than 3000; having, within that time, been repulsed in two general attempts to drive us from our position, and there having been continual cannonading and skirmishing during the whole of it. —  The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
  • To this end I submitted on the 27th ultimo, as a result of much representation and correspondence, through the United States minister at Madrid, propositions to the Spanish Government looking to an armistice until October 1 for the negotiation of peace with the good offices of the President In addition I asked the immediate revocation of the order of reconcentration, so as to permit the people to return to their farms and the needy to be relieved with provisions and supplies from the United States, cooperating with the Spanish authorities, so as to afford full relief The reply of the Spanish cabinet was received on the night of the 31st ultimo. —  Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents William McKinley, Messages, Proclamations, and Executive Orders Relating to the Spanish-American War
  • It appears that on the morning of the 11th ultimo, a party of men in charge of Mr. Faithful's sheep on the route to Port Phillip were preparing to proceed from the Winding Swamp, about 30 miles beyond the Ovens River, on their way to the Goulburn, where it was understood that good sheep stations might be had; and while the bullocks were being yoked the men with the drays heard the shouts of the shepherds crying out for help. —  Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2
 

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  1. Latin ultimō (mēnse), in the last (month), ablative of ultimus, last; see ultimate.

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  1. Latin, ablative singular mase. (sc. mense, month) of ultimus, last: see ultime.
 

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