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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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 E. A. (Elias Avery) Lowe
I had hoped to sit serenely here with a tablet in the wall before me inscribed: Guilielmo Roberto Ware, Henrico Van Brunt, optime de Academia meritis, eo quod facundiam postprandialem irritam fecerunt.
From Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O by Thomas B. (Thomas Brackett) Reed
The last junior optime is called the wooden spoon.
From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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 Edmund Burke
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
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