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▪ I. † opiniˈatre, opiniˈastre, a. and n. Obs.
Also 7 -aster, 6–7 -ater.
[a. F. opiniastre (R. Estienne 1539), later opiniâtre, It. opiniastro (Florio 1598), a Romanic formation on L. opinio: see -aster.]
A. adj. Stiff or stubborn in opinion; obstinate in adhering to or maintaining one's opinion; opinionated.
α1606R. Whyte in Nichols Progr. Jas. I (1828) II. 98 They are the same opiniastre in their humors. 1641Milton Animadv. xiii. Wks. (1851) 240 Spare your selfe, lest you bejade the good galloway, your owne opiniaster wit. 1666Pepys Diary 3 July, A man of excellent..learning, but most passionate and opiniastre. 1692O. Walker Grk. & Rom. Hist. 330 He seems also to have been very Opiniastre in his Paganism.
β1591Garrard's Art Warre 291 The strong Fortresse had beene lost, a thing to be noted of such as be Opiniatre [printed Opiniatro]. 1594A. Hume Hymns, etc. (1832) 64 Be not opiniater and wilfull in trifill maters. 1668Dryden Even. Love ii. (1671) 13 If she begins to fly before me, I grow opiniatre as the Devil. 1692Locke Educ. §189 An insignificant Wrangler, Opiniater in Discourse..or questioning every Thing. 1716Lady Bolingbroke in Swift's Wks. (1841) II. 530 Silly, obstinate, opiniatre friends.
B. n. A person obstinately attached to his own opinion. (In the form opiniater, this fell together with the agent-n. opiniator, q.v.)
α1603Sir C. Heydon Jud. Astrol. ii. 108, I onely exempt Ptolemie out of the number of these superstitious opiniasters. 1653Gauden Hierasp. To Rdr. 9 A Prophecy; which every opiniaster is prone to imagine strongly portendeth the advancement of his opinion. 1684tr. Agrippa's Van. Arts xcv. 326 A monstrous heap of Opiniasters.
βa1677Barrow Serm. (1686) III. 378 A clownish singularist, or non-conformist to ordinary usage, a stiff opiniatre. 1710Acc. Last Distemp. Tom Whigg i. 6 Tom was ever an Opiniatre and a Hobbist. a1716South Serm. (1744) X. 304 Sovereignty itself must be forced..to give way to every religious opiniater.
Hence † opiniˈatreness, † opiniˈatreship.
1689Harvey Curing Dis. by Expect. vii. 53 They continue in the use of [the remedies]..with that opiniatreness and brazen Confidence. 1704N. N. tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. II. 51 Deprav'd Judgment, Opiniatreship, blind Zeal, Folly, boundless Pride and Ambition.
▪ II. † opiniˈatre, v. Obs.
Also -ater.
[a. F. opiniâtrer, f. opiniâtre adj.: see prec.]
a. trans. To maintain or persist in obstinately.
b. intr. To persist obstinately in an opinion, or in a course of action; to ‘insist hard’.
1652Loveday tr. Calprenede's Cassandra i. 32 Some of the Enemy..finding Resistance had opiniater'd the fight. Ibid. 222 Whilst my Master opiniaters the making himself a passage to him, his horse is kild under him. 1678Marvell Def. John Howe Wks. 1875 IV. 183 But if The Discourse shall still opiniatre in this matter, let It..strike efficacious. a1734North Exam. iii. ix. §4 (1740) 649 Dr. Short might differ from what Opinion prevailed, but, in the Case of a King, must not opiniatre. 1777Evelyns in Amer. (1881) 248 Whether..L[ord] G[ermaine] will have strength enough to opiniatre this business for another year, must soon be determined. |