(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:36:21

Op"ti*me (?), n. [L., adv. fr. optimus the best.]

One of those who stand in the second rank of honors, immediately after the wranglers, in the University of Cambridge, England. They are divided into senior and junior optimes.

 

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