optate
verb/ɒpˈteɪt/
Etymology First attested in 1611; borrowed from Latin optātus, perfect passive participle of optō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of opt.
- While we, alas! must still obambulate, Sequacious of the court and courtier's fate : O most infaust who optates there to live! An aulic life no solid joys can give.1989, François Rabelais, “An Epistle by Pantagruel's Limosin”, in The Complete Works of Doctor François Rabelais: