optimacy

optimacy means government by the nobility.

Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, optimacy ranks #2,710 of 42,749 for Qualifying.

Etymology

Compare French optimatie. See optimate.

noun

government by the nobilitye.g.“mixture 'twixt Monarchy, Optimacy, and Democracy” — 1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC:
the nobility, collectively
a most favourable condition or state

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