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
In Π, optime stands at the end of the line.
From A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger A Study of Six Leaves of an Uncial Manuscript Preserved in the Pierpont Morgan Library New York by Lowe, E. A. (Elias Avery)
Writes for Francesco da Carrara his essay "De Republica optime administranda." cxxx 1373.
From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas
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
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