Vocabulary : Optime to Optocoelia

Optime : One of those who stand in the second rank of honors, immediately after the wranglers, in the University of Cambridge, England. They are divided into senior and junior optimes.
Optimism : The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature, being the work of God, is ordered for the best, or that the ordering of things in the universe is such as to produce the highest good. ;; A disposition to take the most hopeful view; -- opposed to pessimism.
Optimist : One who holds the opinion that all events are ordered for the best. ;; One who looks on the bright side of things, or takes hopeful views; -- opposed to pessimist.
Optimistic : Of or pertaining to optimism; tending, or conforming, to the opinion that all events are ordered for the best. ;; Hopeful; sanguine; as, an optimistic view.
Optimity : The state of being best.

Option : The power of choosing; the right of choice or election; an alternative. ;; The exercise of the power of choice; choice. ;; A wishing; a wish. ;; A right formerly belonging to an archbishop to select any one dignity or benefice in the gift of a suffragan bishop consecrated or confirmed by him, for bestowal by himself when next vacant; -- annulled by Parliament in 1845. ;; A stipulated privilege, given to a party in a time contract, of demanding its fulfillment on any day within a specified limit.
Optional : Involving an option; depending on the exercise of an option; left to one's discretion or choice; not compulsory; as, optional studies; it is optional with you to go or stay. ;; See Elective, n.
Optionally : In an optional manner.
Optocoele : Alt. of Optocoelia
Optocoelia : The cavity of one of the optic lobes of the brain in many animals.

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