optimacy
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Compare French optimatie. See optimate.
Noun[edit]
optimacy (countable and uncountable, plural optimacies)
- government by the nobility
- 1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC:
- mixture 'twixt Monarchy, Optimacy, and Democracy
- the nobility, collectively
- a most favourable condition or state
References[edit]
“optimacy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.