optation

English

Etymology

From Latin optatio. See option.

Noun

optation (countable and uncountable, plural optations)

  1. (obsolete) The act of optating; a wish.
    • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], OCLC 152706203:
      whilst they murmur against the present disposure of things, regulating determined realities unto their private optations, they rest not in their established natures
    • 1577 Henry Peacham, The garden of Eloquence
      To this belong — optation, obtestation, interrogation.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for optation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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