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Word Meanings - OPTIMATES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The nobility or aristocracy of ancient Rome, as opposed to the populares.

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  • OPPOSABILITY
    The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
  • OPPOSITIONIST
    One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
  • NOBILITY
    1. The quality or state of being noble; superiority of mind or of character; commanding excellence; eminence. Though she hated Amphialus, yet the nobility of her courage prevailed over it. Sir P. Sidney. They thought it great their sovereign to
  • OPPOSITIVE
    Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
  • OPPOSELESS
    Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
  • OPPOSITIFOLIOUS
    Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle.
  • OPPOSABLE
    1. Capable of being opposed or resisted. 2. Capable of being placed opposite something else; as, the thumb is opposable to the forefinger.
  • ANCIENTNESS
    The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.
  • ANCIENTLY
    1. In ancient times. 2. In an ancient manner.
  • OPPOSE
    1. To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit. Her grace sat down . . . In a rich chair of state; opposing freely The beauty of her person to the people. Shak. 2. To put in opposition, with a view to counterbalance
  • OPPOSITISEPALOUS
    Placed in front of a sepal.
  • POPULARES
    The people or the people's party, in ancient Rome, as opposed to the optimates.
  • OPPOSITION
    The situation of a heavenly body with respect to another when in the part of the heavens directly opposite to it; especially, the position of a planet or satellite when its longitude differs from that of the sun 180ยบ; -- signified by the symbol
  • OPPOSITENESS
    The quality or state of being opposite.
  • ARISTOCRACY
    meant fitting: cf. F. aristocratie. See Arm, and Create, which is related to Gr. 1. Government by the best citizens. 2. A ruling body composed of the best citizens. In the Senate Right not our quest in this, I will protest them To all the world,
  • OPPOSITELY
    In a situation to face each other; in an opposite manner or direction; adversely. Winds from all quarters oppositely blow. May.
  • ANCIENTRY
    1. Antiquity; what is ancient. They contain not word of ancientry. West. 2. Old age; also, old people. Wronging the ancientry. Shak. 3. Ancient lineage; ancestry; dignity of birth. A gentleman of more ancientry than estate. Fuller.
  • OPPOSITE
    1. Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange. 2. Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different; other; as, the opposite sex; the opposite
  • OPPOSER
    One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist; an adversary.
  • ANCIENT
    1. Old; that happened or existed in former times, usually at a great distance of time; belonging to times long past; specifically applied to the times before the fall of the Roman empire; -- opposed to modern; as, ancient authors, literature,
  • REOPPOSE
    To oppose again.
  • IGNOBILITY
    Ignobleness. Bale.

 

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