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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Ecclesiam Catholicam Romanam optime a mediocris Bavari bureaucrat semel tasked cum concelamento foedissimis iniquitatem, cuius ineptitudinem in illa job nunc ostendit eo ad nos sicut homo personaliter et professionally responsible pro enabling sordida unda sceleris.
From Slate • Feb. 11, 2013
The jokes tend to be lame: Primus: "Noah Webster optime Anglice locutus est."
From Time Magazine Archive
Hæc, inquam verba, Mosem ad suos Judæos literaliter loqui planè certum, evidens, et manifestum est; ita tamen ut eadem hæc ejus verba allegorice Evangelio ejusque catechumenis et fidelibus optime conveniant.
From Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford by Burgon, John William
Sylburgii 35 ----- 73 Qu� cuncta Tibi optime convenire, Teque valere perpetim precor et opto.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
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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