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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Cf. F.

optimatie

. See

Government by the nobility.

[R.]

Howell.

Collectively, the nobility.

[R.]

Noun.

[L. optimates, grandees, from optimus, best.] The body of nobles; the nobility.

optimacy ‎(countable and uncountable, plural optimacies)

government by the nobility
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the nobility, collectively
a most favourable condition or state