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Optative   Listen
noun
Optative  n.  
1.
Something to be desired. (R.)
2.
(Gram.) The optative mood; also, a verb in the optative mood.





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... Their verbs have four moods, the indicative, optative, imperative, and infinitive, and five tenses, one present, three preterites, and one future. The rules of their formation are simple. By changing the termination of the infinitive into a, we have the ...
— The Arawack Language of Guiana in its Linguistic and Ethnological Relations • Daniel G. Brinton


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