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- English Word Optic Definition An eyeglass.
- English Word Optic Definition Alt. of Optical
- English Word Optical Definition Of or pertaining to vision or sight.
- English Word Optical Definition Of or pertaining to the eye; ocular; as, the optic nerves (the first pair of cranial nerves) which are distributed to the retina. See Illust. of Brain, and Eye.
- English Word Optical Definition Relating to the science of optics; as, optical works.
- English Word Optically Definition By optics or sight; with reference to optics.
- English Word Optician Definition One skilled in optics.
- English Word Optician Definition One who deals in optical glasses and instruments.
- English Word Optics Definition That branch of physical science which treats of the nature and properties of light, the laws of its modification by opaque and transparent bodies, and the phenomena of vision.
- English Word Optigraph Definition A telescope with a diagonal eyepiece, suspended vertically in gimbals by the object end beneath a fixed diagonal plane mirror. It is used for delineating landscapes, by means of a pencil at the eye end which leaves the delineation on paper.
- English Word Optimacy Definition Government by the nobility.
- English Word Optimacy Definition Collectively, the nobility.
- English Word Optimate Definition Of or pertaining to the nobility or aristocracy.
- English Word Optimate Definition A nobleman or aristocrat; a chief man in a state or city.
- English Word Optimates Definition The nobility or aristocracy of ancient Rome, as opposed to the populares.
- English Word Optime Definition One of those who stand in the second rank of honors, immediately after the wranglers, in the University of Cambridge, England. They are divided into senior and junior optimes.
- English Word Optimism Definition The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature, being the work of God, is ordered for the best, or that the ordering of things in the universe is such as to produce the highest good.
- English Word Optimism Definition A disposition to take the most hopeful view; -- opposed to pessimism.
- English Word Optimist Definition One who holds the opinion that all events are ordered for the best.
- English Word Optimist Definition One who looks on the bright side of things, or takes hopeful views; -- opposed to pessimist.
- English Word Optimistic Definition Of or pertaining to optimism; tending, or conforming, to the opinion that all events are ordered for the best.
- English Word Optimistic Definition Hopeful; sanguine; as, an optimistic view.
- English Word Optimity Definition The state of being best.
- English Word Option Definition The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative.
- English Word Option Definition The exercise of the power of choice; choice.
- English Word Option Definition A wishing; a wish.
- English Word Option Definition A right formerly belonging to an archbishop to select any one dignity or benefice in the gift of a suffragan bishop consecrated or confirmed by him, for bestowal by himself when next vacant; -- annulled by Parliament in 1845.
- English Word Option Definition A stipulated privilege, given to a party in a time contract, of demanding its fulfillment on any day within a specified limit.
- English Word Optional Definition Involving an option; depending on the exercise of an option; left to one's discretion or choice; not compulsory; as, optional studies; it is optional with you to go or stay.
- English Word Optional Definition See Elective, n.