Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the University of Cambridge, England, one of those in the second or third grade of honors in mathematics, the wranglers constituting the first rank, and the senior and junior optimes the second and third respectively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of those who stand in the second rank of honors, immediately after the wranglers, in the University of Cambridge, England. They are divided into senior and junior optimes.
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- noun A
student whograduates withsecond class ("senior optime") orthird class ("junior optime")honours in Mathematics, or (loosely) in any other subject.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Consolator optime, Greatest comforter, dulcis hospes animae, sweet guest of the soul, dulce refrigerium. sweet consolation.
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Consolator optime, Greatest comforter, dulcis hospes animae, sweet guest of the soul, dulce refrigerium. sweet consolation.
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For one example, here's the music for the Vespers hymn for Sunday, Lucis Creator optime O blest Creator of the light.
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Epictetus: optime feceris si ea fugeris quae in alio reprehendis.
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For one example, here's the music for the Vespers hymn for Sunday, Lucis Creator optime O blest Creator of the light.
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Lucis Creator optime O blest Creator of the light
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Rhasis, in multis vidi, praeter rationem semper aliquid timent, in caeteris tamen optime se gerunt, neque aliquid praeter dignitatem committunt.
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Vidi Romae melancholicum qui adhibitis multis remediis, sanari non poterat; sed cum cranium gladio fractum esset, optime sanatus est.
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Radatur caput et fiat cauterium in capite; procul dubio ista faciunt ad fumorum exhalationem; vidi melancholicum a fortuna gladio vulneratum, et cranium fractum, quam diu vulnus apertum, curatus optime; at cum vulnus sanatum, reversa est mania.
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GIBLIN, LYNDHURST FALKINER (1872-1951), political economist, was born on 29 November 1872 in Hobart...he entered King's College, Cambridge, in 1893, graduating senior optime (mathematics and science) in 1896 (M.A., 1928).
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