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Ulterior

adjective

Lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed (especially being kept in the background or deliberately concealed). Synonyms: subterranean, subterraneous. "Looked too closely for an ulterior purpose in all knowledge"

Beyond or outside an area of immediate interest; remote. "Without...any purpose, immediate or ulterior"

Coming at a subsequent time or stage. Synonyms: later, posterior. "The mood posterior to"

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"Ulterior" Quotes from Famous Books

... Don Prospero at once resolved upon a course of action. There was not a moment to be lost. He obtained permission to attend me professionally in the prison. It was a cheap grace on Uraga's part, considering his ulterior design. An attendant, a sort of hospital assistant, was allowed to accompany the doctor to the cell, carrying his lints, drugs, and instruments. Fortunately, I had not been quite stripped by the ruffians who had imprisoned me, and in my own purse, along with that of Don Prospero, was ...

— The Lone Ranche • Captain Mayne Reid

... escaped to France, including a Dudley, a connexion of the dead Northumberland, who gave his name to the plot. Most of them were hotheaded young men, who did not appreciate, as did their shrewder elders, the danger of relying on French assistance which would only be granted for ulterior ends. As the year went on, the violent temper of Paul IV. involved him in war with Philip; France naturally took up his cause; and it was more difficult than ever for Mary to escape being dragged into ...

— England Under the Tudors • Arthur D. Innes

... Pendennis, having his own ulterior object, was bent upon seeing Pen's country neighbour and representative in Parliament, it took the Major no inconsiderable trouble and time before he could get him into such a confidential state and conversation, as were necessary for the ends ...

— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray

... period that he openly extended his protection to the descendants of Abraham; but it is not improbable that the notion had occurred to him during his Eastern campaigns of employing them for the purpose of establishing an independent sovereignty in Palestine, devoted to his ulterior views in the countries ...

— Palestine or the Holy Land - From the Earliest Period to the Present Time • Michael Russell

... to do, Master Tom Dare!" was the reply in a stern tone. "The fact is, I believe you are a rebel spy. Your explanation of your presence here, when your home is over in New Jersey is not satisfactory at all. I am certain that you have an ulterior motive in coming, and the only motive that I can think of is that you came to engage in spy-work. Take him to the prison at once, men," this last ...

— The Dare Boys of 1776 • Stephen Angus Cox

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