optate

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To choose, settle on, opt. literary,rare
    — 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.

词形变化

optates present,singular,third-person optating participle,present optated participle,past optated past

词源

First attested in 1611; borrowed from Latin optātus, perfect passive participle of optō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of opt.
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