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English
Etymology
From opinion + -ate, perhaps after Middle French opinionner.
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opinionate (third-person singular simple present opinionates, present participle opinionating, simple past and past participle opinionated)
- (transitive, intransitive) To have or express as an opinion; to opine.
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 3, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes , book II, London: Val Simmes for Edward Blount , →OCLC:notwithstanding being (as he saith) counselled by a friend of his, at that instant, to kill himselfe, it fell out well for him to opinionate himselfe [translating s'opiniatrer] yet in hope […].
2002 April 15, Mike Thomas, Chicago Sun-Times:He doesn't editorialize and he doesn't try to opinionate. It is just the facts.
- (reflexive) To have a given opinion.
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Adjective
opinionate (comparative more opinionate, superlative most opinionate)
- (archaic) Opinionated.
1815, Richard Brathwaite, Essays Upon the Five Senses: Revived by A New Supplement:May humility henceforth conduct me; for conceit of knowledge, through an opinionate arrogance, hath made me many times glory in my own ignorance.
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