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Webster 1913 Edition
Optimate
Op′ti-mate
,Adj.
[L.
optimas
, -atis
, adj., optimates
, n. pl., the adherents of the best men, the aristocrats, fr. optimus
the best.] Of or pertaining to the nobility or aristocracy.
[R.]
– Noun.
A nobleman or aristocrat; a chief man in a state or city.
[R.]
Chapman.
Definition 2024
optimate
optimate
English
Noun
optimate (plural optimates)
- (historical) A member of the patrician ruling class in republican Ancient Rome; an aristocrat, a noble.
- 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin 2012, p. 23:
- Over the same decade, the upper stratum of Visigothic society, the optimatesgradually lost their influence.
- 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin 2012, p. 23:
Translations
member of the patrician ruling class in republican Ancient Rome