opiniateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

opiniate (third-person singular simple present opiniates, present participle opiniating, simple past and past participle opiniated)

1. (obsolete) To hold an opinion, especially in a persistent manner.
   • 1649, Henry Hammond, o the right honourable, the Lord Fairfax, and his councell of vvarre‎:

     If 'twere granted, that in some one, or more places the power hath been originally in the People, yet it will never appeare by the originalls of all, or of this Kingdome, that in all or in this it was so; or if men will still opiniate, and affirme against the e∣vidence of the Lawes, and constitution of this Kingdome, and against those Oaths which have for so many yeares acknowledged the seat of the Supremacy in the King, and not in the People

   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     Men are punished by too-much opiniating themselves in a place without reason

関連する語

• opine
• opinion

参照

• “opiniate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.