in medicine, the act of obstructing or stopping up the pallage of the body, by redundant 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 willing; as utinam, in Latin; plut à Dieu, in French; and would to God, in English.