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▪ I. † oˈpiniate, a. and n. Obs.
[In this and the following words to opiniatry, the stem opini- appears either to be shortened from L. opīnio, opinion, or due to the influence of that word upon opīn- in opinate, opinative, etc.; they are not confined to Eng., for opini-ato, opiniativo occur in It. (Florio), opini-atico in Sp. (Minsheu), opiniatif, opini-âtre in Fr. etc.; but Eng. has more of them. They have mostly parallel forms in opinion- and opin-: see opinial, opinional; with opiniate, cf. opinate, opinionate.]
a. adj. = opiniated 3.
b. n. An opiniated person.
1597J. Payne Royal Exch. 7 Sory to behoulde suche blynd opiniates so farr to outrun very many professors.
Hence † oˈpiniately adv.; † oˈpiniateness.
1645City Alarum 18 Must the free horse alwayes be spurgalled, and the dull Asse favoured in his opiniatness? 1647Sectary Dissected 27 Contumacie, obstinate opiniatnesse, sedition, pertinacity in speaking evill of dignities. 1658T. Wall Comm. Times 22 It makes the knowing more learnedly ignorant, and the ignorant more opiniately knowing.
▪ II. † oˈpiniate, v. Obs.
[Cf. opiniate adj., and the vbs. opinate, opinionate.]
1. trans. To hold as an opinion, or to hold an opinion concerning; to suppose, think, opine.
1624Heywood Gunaik. i. 25 These Goddesses..as they are opiniated, have the government of children in their infancie. 1656Bramhall Replic. i. 10 This present age..doth not know what it self beleeveth, or rather opiniateth.
2. To fix (a person) in an opinion; refl. to adhere obstinately to an opinion. (Cf. OF. s'opinionner.)
1603Florio Montaigne i. xiv. (1632) 24 Men are punished by too-much opiniating themselves in a place without reason.
3. To pronounce an opinion upon.
a1797H. Walpole Mem. Geo. III (1845) II. vii. 138 Rose Fuller said he would not opiniate the point, but declared he was against the precedent. |