資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Utter \Ut"ter\, a. [OE. utter, originally the same word as
outer. See {Out}, and cf. {Outer}, {Utmost}.]
1. Outer. ``Thine utter eyen.'' --Chaucer. [Obs.] ``By him a
shirt and utter mantle laid.'' --Chapman.
As doth an hidden moth The inner garment fret, not
th' utter touch. --Spenser.
2. Situated on the outside, or extreme limit; remote from the
center; outer. [Obs.]
Through utter and through middle darkness borne.
--Milton.
The very utter part pf Saint Adelmes point is five
miles from Sandwich. --Holinshed.
3. Complete; perfect; total; entire; absolute; as, utter
ruin; utter darkness.
They . . . are utter strangers to all those anxious
thoughts which disquiet mankind. --Atterbury.
4. Peremptory; unconditional; unqualified; final; as, an
utter refusal or denial. --Clarendon.
{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.