ulterior

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Situated beyond, or on the farther side.

   “It [Spain] was divided by the Romans into two provinces, Citeriour and Ulteriour, nearer and farther, that is, from Rome.”

2. sıfat Beyond what is obvious or evident.

   “Let a watch be contrived and constructed ever so ingeniously: be its parts ever so many, ever so complicated, ever so finely wrought, or artificially put together, it cannot go without a weight or spring, that is, without a force independent of, and ulteriour to, its mechanism.”

3. sıfat Being intentionally concealed so as to deceive.

   “Motives, of course, may be mixed; but this only means that a man aims at a variety of goals by means of the same course of action. Similarly a man may have a strong motive or a weak one, an ulterior motive or an ostensible one.”

4. sıfat Happening later; subsequent.

   “A rather deep red coloration, which appears by the action of the first bubbles of chlorine, but which soon disappears by the ulterior action of this gas: not turbid.”