| 单词 |
optable |
| 释义 |
optable, a.|ˈɒptəb(ə)l| [ad. L. optābil-is, f. optāre: see prec. and -ble.] To be wished for, desirable.
1569Newton Cicero's Olde Age 54 b, After death, the sence is eyther suche as is blessed and optable, or else it is none at all. 1623in Cockeram. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 242 Furnish'd with even such an Ideal, optable or designable Arianizing Library. Hence ˈoptableness; ˈoptably adv., desirably.
1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 497 With this [method]..their Theorems [are] more optably read, and easily learned. 1727Bailey vol. II, Optablenes, desirableness. |

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