ŏp'ti-mate1, a.
a. Pertaining or belonging to the nobility; noble. [Rare.]
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Optimate
ŏp'ti-mate2, n.
[Lat. optimas, optimatis, pl. optimates, the adherents of the best men, the aristocrats, grandees, from optimus, the best.] A nobleman; a chief man in a state or city.
No optimate. Of all the Greeks, had the charge to ope And shut the stratagem but I. Chapman.