opiniate

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈpɪnieɪt/, /əʊˈpɪnieɪt/

Verb

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

1. (obsolete) To hold or maintain persistently.
   • 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

Related terms

• opine
• opinion

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “opiniate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Italian

Verb

opiniate

1. second-person plural present subjunctive of opinare