opiniate

present singular third person opiniates · participle present opiniating · participle past opiniated · past opiniated

1. obsoleteTo hold an opinion, especially in a persistent manner.

   Men are punished by too-much opiniating themselves in a place without reason

   1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC

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   If 'twere granted, that in some one, or more places the power hath been originally in the People, yet it will never appeare by the originalls of all, or of this Kingdome, that in all or in this it was so; or if men will still opiniate, and affirme against the e∣vidence of the Lawes, and constitution of this Kingdome, and against those Oaths which have for so many yeares acknowledged the seat of the Supremacy in the King, and not in the People

   1649, Henry Hammond, o the right honourable, the Lord Fairfax, and his councell of vvarre