† exoptableadj.
Obsolete. rare. Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.
To be desired or wished.
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1656 T. Blount Glossographia Exoptable, to be desired or wished.
1721–1800 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.
1818 in H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. ; whence in mod. Dicts.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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adj.1656- to do one's worst
- to do oneself a bit of no good
- to do oneself in a person's mercy
- to do oneself justice
- to do oneself to a person's mercy
- to do or be…gladly
- to do or die
- to do or have diligence
- to do or make a blenk or blench
- to do or make cost
- to do or make costs
- to do or make deray to
- to do or make gree
- to do or make ligeance
- to do or make one's ligeance
- to do or make the cost
- to do or make the costs
- to do or pay one's devoir
- to do or pay one's devoirs (to some one
- to do or perform wonders
- to do or put up, to let down hair
- to do or put up, to let down one's hair
- to do or work wough
- to do out
- to do out of