in medicine, the act of obstructing or stopping up the passages of the body, by redundant Optative. dundant or peccant humours. This word is chiefly used for obstructions in the lower belly.

OPTATIVE mood, in grammar, that which serves to express an ardent desire or wish for something.

In most languages, except the Greek, the optative is only expressed by prefixing to the subjunctive an adverb of wishing; as utinam, in Latin; plut a Dieu, in French; and would to God, in English.