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optional |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Optional \Op"tion*al\, a. Involving an option; depending on the exercise of an option; left to one's discretion or choice; not compulsory; as optional studies; it is optional with you to go or stay. -- n. See {Elective}, n. If to the former the movement was not optional, it was the same that the latter chose when it was optional. --Palfrey. Original writs are either optional or peremptory. --Blackstone. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: optional adj : possible but not necessary; left to personal choice [ant: {obligatory}]
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