optime
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of optime
1700–10; extracted from Latin phrase optimē ( disputasti ) (you have argued) very well
Example Sentences
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The last junior optime is called the wooden spoon.
From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis
He entered St John's College, Cambridge, in 1839, and graduated B.A. in 1843, being seventh in the first class of the classical tripos and a senior optime.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various
Servius tells us that the pontifices addressed even Jupiter himself thus: "Iupiter optime maxime, sive quo alio nomine te appellari volueris."
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde
Founders' kinsmen have a preference in the election of fellows in many colleges of our universities: the qualifications at All Souls are, that they should be optime nati, bene vestiti, mediocriter docti.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
He was a man of very high attainments, had been an optime at Cambridge, was a distinguished essayist, and his party had conceived the very greatest expectations of his success in Parliament.
From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James
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