Meanings
adjective
- obsoleteraremagnificent, rich, plenteous
See yonder where Marcellus comes, with pride of spoils opime.
1875, M. P. W. Bolton, transl., Homer's Iliad: Translation of Book I; also Passages from Virgil, London: Chapman and Hall, page 972 more examples
That is to ſay, Thoſe great and opime Preferments and Dignities which thy ambitious and wordly minde ſo longingly hankers after.
1664, Henry More, “Part the Firſt, Book II, Chapter XV”, in A modeſt Enquiry into the Myſtery of Iniquity, London: J. Fleſher, page 425For, shou'd you come before the Brume's abated Th' Opime you'd linquish for the Macerated.
1737, François Rabelais, “Book V”, in Peter Anthony Motteux, Sir Thomas Urquhart, transl., The Works of Mr. Francois Rabelais […] , volume 2, Navarre Society, published 1921, page 438
Origin
- Latinopīmus“fertile, plump”
- Englishopime
From Latin opīmus (“fertile, plump”).
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