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optate en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ɒpˈteɪt/

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (before the 19th century, literary, rare) To choose, settle on, opt.
   • 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. 1989, François Rabelais, “An Epistle by Pantagruel's Limosin”, in The Complete Works of Doctor François Rabelais:

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