Of a substance: pure, unmixed.
Two cups of utter silver wrought and rough with imagery / I give you, which my father took from wracked Arisbe's hold; […]
Of decisions, replies, etc.: made in an unconditional or unqualified manner; decisive, definite.
There could not then be any other eſtimate made of the loſs VValler ſuſtain'd, than by the not purſuing the viſible advantage he had, and by the utter refuſal of the Auxiliary Regiments of London and Kent, to march farther; […]
The thing which is most utter (adjective sense) or extreme.
I take my leave, readie to countervaile all your courtesies to the utter of my power.
Senses relating to expressing sounds, etc., or disclosing something
Further apart, away, or out; outside, without.
A strawe, sayde Bele, stande vtter, / For we haue egges and butter, / And of pygeons a payre.
To an extreme extent; altogether, quite.
A surname.
PIE word *úd From Middle English outren, utteren (“to display for sale; to market; to sell; to say, speak; to put into words, express, tell; to make known, reveal”), partly: * from outre, utter (adje...
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Senses relating to issuing something.
[Y]ᵉ same [the book] was well vtteryd by yᵉ printar, & well lyked of in yᵉ comon weale, […]
I knovv they vvill deny me gracious Madame, / Being a ſtranger, and ſo little fam'd / So vtter emptie of theſe excellencies / That tame authority; […]