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countable and uncountable, plural optations
(obsolete) A wish; a desire. quotations
whilst they murmur against the present disposure of things, regulating determined realities unto their private optations, they rest not in their established natures
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […]
To this belong — optation, obtestation, interrogation.
1577, Henry Peacham, The Garden of Eloquence