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optating

optating is the present participle and gerund of optate.

Meaning of optate

Verb

optate (third-person singular simple present optates, present participle optating, simple past and past participle optated)

  1. (literary, rare) To choose, settle on, opt.
    • While we, alas! must still obambulate, Sequacious of the court and courtier's fate : O most infaust who optates there to live! An aulic life no solid joys can give.1989, François Rabelais, “An Epistle by Pantagruel's Limosin”, in The Complete Works of Doctor François Rabelais

Questions about optating

What is optating the present participle and gerund of?
Optating is the present participle and gerund of optate.

Words near optating in the dictionary

  1. optant
  2. optants
  3. optate
  4. optated
  5. optates
  6. optating
  7. optation
  8. optations
  9. optative
  10. optatively
  11. optatives

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