Optimë (plural, op-ti-mēs),

in Cambridge phraseology, is a graduate in honours below a wrangler. Of course, the Latin optimus (a best man) is the fons et origo of the term. Optimës are of two grades: a man of the higher group is termed a senior optimë, while one of the inferior class is called a junior optimë.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Opal of Alphonso XII. (of Spain)
Open Air Mission
Open Question (An)
Open Secret (An)
Open, Sesamë
Open the Ball (To)
Ophelia
Opinicus
Opium-eater (The English)
Oppidan of Eton
Optimë (plural, op-ti-mēs)
Optimism
Opus Majus
Opus Operantis
Opus Operatum
Or Ever
Oracle
Oracle
Oracle (Sir)
Oracle of the Church (The)
Oracle of the Holy Bottle, Bacbuc