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Definition of Optimes
1. optime [n] - See also: optime
Lexicographical Neighbors of Optimes
Literary usage of Optimes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scholae Academicae: Some Account of the Studies at the English Universities by Christopher Wordsworth (1877)
"E. Delaval, see p. 16. 1 Chafin (see pp. 29, 863) is put tit the head of the
senior optimes; the other three stand above the 2"* wren?. fer. ..."
2. A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall (1859)
"... and to reiterate the stale and perennial remark, that " Wranglers are born
with gold spoons in their mouths, Senior optimes with silver, ..."
3. The Admission Register of the Manchester School: With Some Notices of the by Manchester (England). Grammar School, Jeremiah Finch Smith (1866)
"... of the school in 1782, to S. John's college, Cambridge, where he graduated AB
1785, being placed third among the junior optimes, and AM 1788. ..."
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