optionary
adjEtymology From option + -ary.
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Dated optional
- The idea that giving is a mere optionary thing, to be done, or not done, as one pleases, seems to be the prevailing one at present.1856, The Presbyterian magazine, volume 6, page 429:
adj
Etymology From option + -ary.
Dated optional
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