Emily Dickinson Lexicon

OP-PRO'BRI-OUS, a. [See Opprobrium.]

1. Reproachful and contemptuous; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language; opprobrious words or terms.
2. Blasted with infamy; despised; rendered hateful; as, an opprobrious name. Milton. Daniel.

OP-PRO'BRI-OUS-LY, adv.

With reproach mingled with contempt; scurrilously. Shak.

OP-PRO'BRI-OUS-NESS, n.

Reproachfulness mingled with contempt; scurrility.

OP-P'RO'BRI-UM, n. [L. ob and probrum, disgrace.]

Reproach mingled with contempt or disdain.

OP-PRO'BY, n.

Opprobrium. [Not used.]

OP-PUGN, v.t. oppu'ne. [L. oppugno; ob and pugno, to fight, from pugnus, the fist, Sp. puño, Fr. poing.]

To attack; to oppose; to resist. They said the manner of their impeachment they could not but conceive did oppugn the rights of parliament. Clarendon. [It is never used in the literal sense, to fight]

OP-PUG'NAN-CY, n.

Opposition; resistance. Shak.

OP-PUG'NANT, a.

Opposing; resisting.

OP-PUG-NA'TION, n.

Opposition; resistance. Hall.

OP-PUGN-ED, pp. oppu'ned.

Opposed; resisted. .

OP-PUGN-ER, n. oppu'ner.

One who opposes or attacks; that which opposes. Boyle.

OP-PUGN-ING, ppr. oppu'ning.

Attacking; opposing.

OP-SIM'A-THY, n. [Gr. {foreign}; {foreign}, late, and {foreign}, to learn.]

Late education; education late in life. [Little used.] Hales.

OP-SI-OM'E-TER, n. [Gr. {foreign} and {foreign}]

An instrument for measuring the extent of the limits of distinct vision in different individuals, and from that to determine the focal length of a lens necessary to correct imperfect sight. Brande.

OP-SO-NA'TION, n. [L. obsono, to cater.]

A catering; a buying of provisions. [Not used.] Dict.

OP'TA-BLE, a. [L. optabilis, from opto, to desire.]

Desirable. [Not used.]

OP-TA'TION, n. [L. optatio.]

A desiring; the expression of a wish. Peacham.

OP'TA-TIVE, a. [L. optativus, from opto, to desire or wish.]

Expressing desire or wish. The optative mode, in grammar, is that form of the verb in which wish or desire is expressed.

OP'TA-TIVE, n.

Something to be desired. [Little used.] Bacon.

OP'TIC, n.

An organ of sight. Trumbull.

OP'TIC-AL-LY, adv.

By optics or sight.

OP-TI'CIAN, n.

1. A person skilled in the science of optics. Smith.
2. One who makes or sells optic glasses and instruments. Adams.

OPTICS, n.

The science which treats of light and the phenomena of vision. Encyc.

OP'TI-MA-CY, n. [L. optimates, grandees, from optimus, best.]

The body of nobles; the nobility. Howell.

OP'TI-MISM, n. [L. optimus, best.]

The opinion or doctrine that every thing in nature is ordered for the best; or the order of things in the universe that is adapted to produce the most good. The true and amiable philosophy of optimism. Walsh. A system of strict optimism may be the real system in hoth cases. Paley.