optation
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin optatio. See option.
Noun edit
optation (countable and uncountable, plural optations)
- (obsolete) A wish; a desire.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- 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.
Related terms edit
References edit
- “optation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.