Optate

//ɒpˈteɪt// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    To choose, settle on, opt. literary, rare

    "While we, alas! must still obambulate, Sequacious of the court and courtier's fate : O most infaust who optates there to live! An aulic life no solid joys can give."

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"While we, alas! must still obambulate, Sequacious of the court and courtier's fate : O most infaust who optates there to live! An aulic life no solid joys can give."

Etymology

First attested in 1611; borrowed from Latin optātus, perfect passive participle of optō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of opt.

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