optation

English

Etymology

From Latin optatio. See option.

Noun

optation (countable and uncountable, plural optations)

1. (obsolete) A wish; a desire.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     whilst they murmur against the present disposure of things, regulating determined realities unto their private optations, they rest not in their established natures

   • 1577, Henry Peacham, The Garden of Eloquence

     To this belong — optation, obtestation, interrogation.

Related terms

• co-optation
• optate

 

References

• “optation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• potation