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optime
[ op-tuh-mee ]
noun
- (formerly at Cambridge University, England) a student taking second or third honors in the mathematical tripos. Compare wrangler ( def 2 ).
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Word History and Origins
Origin of optime1
1700–10; extracted from Latin phrase optimē ( disputasti ) (you have argued) very well
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Example Sentences
In 1854 he took his degree as fourth junior optime, and fourth in the first class of the classical tripos.
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Ut navem, ut aedificium idem destruit facillime qui construxit, sic hominem eadem optime quae conglutinavit natura dissolvit.
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Ergo humanum genus bene se habet et optime, quando secundum quod potest Deo adsimilatur.
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The young fellow sitting near me winked; and the divinity-student said, in an undertone,—Optime dictum.
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He achieved the rare distinction of obtaining an optime for both Greek and for physics.
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