optate

verb /ɒpˈteɪt/

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.

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry optate (CC BY-SA 4.0).

← opsoclonusoptime →

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