optime
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of optime
1700–10; extracted from Latin phrase optimē ( disputasti ) (you have argued) very well
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The last junior optime is called the Wooden Spoon.
From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
He graduated in 1757 a senior optime; three years later he proceeded M.A. and became classical tutor, and in 1775 master of his college, in succession to William Richardson, the biographer of the English bishops.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
He urged me to read law, but still to go out as a high senior optime, which he says I could be, without reading more than a very small quantity of mathematics every day.
From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 by Stephen Lucius Gwynn
He achieved the rare distinction of obtaining an optime for both Greek and for physics.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 8 "Haller, Albrecht" to "Harmonium" by Various
Satis et optime disputasti, 'Go thy ways, thou flower and quintessence of Wranglers.'
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall
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