Word Meanings - OPTATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Expressing desire or wish. Fuller. Optative mood , that mood or form of a verb, as in Greek, Sanskrit, etc., in which a wish or desire is expressed.

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• OPTATIVELY
  In an optative manner; with the expression of desire. God blesseth man imperatively, and man blesseth God optatively. Bp. Hall.
• FULLER
  One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed
• GREEK CALENDS; GREEK KALENDS
  A time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends.
• GREEKLING
  A little Greek, or one of small esteem or pretensions. B. Jonson.
• GREEKISH
  Peculiar to Greece.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• EXPRESSURE
  The act of expressing; expression; utterance; representation. An operation more divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to. Shak.
• EXPRESS TRAIN
  Formerly, a railroad train run expressly for the occasion; a special train; now, a train run at express or special speed and making few stops.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• EXPRESSIVE
  1. Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; -- followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude. Each verse so swells expressive of her woes. Tickell. 2. Full of expression; vividly representing the meaning
• EXPRESSNESS
  The state or quality of being express; definiteness. Hammond.
• DESIREFUL
  Filled with desire; eager. The desireful troops. Godfrey .
• SANSKRITIST
  One versed in Sanskrit.
• EXPRESSIONAL
  Of, or relating to, expression; phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea sentiment. Fized. Hall. Ruskin.
• DESIRE
  sidus star, constellation, and hence orig., to turn the eyes from the 1. To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet. Neither shall any man desire thy land. Ex. xxxiv. 24. Ye desire your child to live. Tennyson. 2. To express a wish
• EXPRESSIONLESS
  Destitute of expression.
• SANSKRITIC
  Sanskrit.
• DESIRER
  One who desires, asks, or wishes.
• EXPRESSMAN
  A person employed in the express business; also, the driver of a job wagon. W. D. Howells.
• SANSKRIT
  The ancient language of the Hindoos, long since obsolete in vernacular use, but preserved to the present day as the literary and sacred dialect of India. It is nearly allied to the Persian, and to the principal languages of Europe, classical and
• INEXPRESSIBLY
  In an inexpressible manner or degree; unspeakably; unutterably. Spectator.
• FENUGREEK
  A plant cultivated for its strong- smelling seeds, which are "now only used for giving false importance to horse medicine and damaged hay." J. Smith (Pop. Names of Plants,
• NEO-GREEK
  A member of a body of French painters of the middle 19th century. The term is rather one applied by outsiders to certain artists of grave and refined style, such as Hamon and Aubert, than a name adopted by the artists themselves.
• UNEXPRESSIBLE
  Inexpressible. Tillotson. -- Un`ex*press"i*bly, adv.
• UNEXPRESSIVE
  1. Not expressive; not having the power of utterance; inexpressive. 2. Incapable of being expressed; inexpressible; unutterable; ineffable. Run, run, Orlando; carve on every tree The fair, the chaste and unexpressive she. Shak. -- Un`ex*press"ive*ly,