Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In an optative manner; by desire; by the expression of a wish.
- By means of the optative mode; in the optative mode.
Wiktionary
- adv. In an optative way.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. rare In an optative manner; with the expression of desire.
Etymologies
- optative + -ly (Wiktionary)
Examples
“From Rosenstock-Huessy's perspective, Heidegger's deployment of Being, as a gesture of defiance against the technicity into which the world has fallen, is precisely the same kind of optatively-governed gesture which characterizes the philosopher's freedom (an aesthetic/moral one).”
“to go to Jericho, Bath, Hong Kong, Putney, etc.: used imperatively or optatively to imply that one desires to see no more of a person, or does not care what becomes of him.”
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Poetrie: Opuscule
The Lion's Tooth and Opuntia stand oppositively.
Oppilating them, a penguin.
He finds he's between either side of an opisthograph,
representing sea and sky, grace and flight,
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