optation
nounEtymology From Latin optatio. See option.
1
Obsolete A wish; a desire.
- whilst they murmur against the present disposure of things, regulating determined realities unto their private optations, they rest not in their established natures1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- 1577, Henry Peacham, The Garden of Eloquence To this belong — optation, obtestation, interrogation.
- Related terms
- co-optation, optate