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Etymology
From Latin optatio. See option.
Noun
optation (countable and uncountable, plural optations)
- (obsolete) A wish; a desire.
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath 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.
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