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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

OPI'NE, v.i. [L. opinor.] To think; to suppose. Obs.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: express one's opinion openly and without fear or hesitation; "John spoke up at the meeting" [syn: opine, speak up, speak out, animadvert, sound off]
2: expect, believe, or suppose; "I imagine she earned a lot of money with her new novel"; "I thought to find her in a bad state"; "he didn't think to find her in the kitchen"; "I guess she is angry at me for standing her up" [syn: think, opine, suppose, imagine, reckon, guess]

Merriam Webster's

verb (opined; opining) Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French opiner, from Latin opinari to have an opinion Date: 15th century intransitive verb to express opinions transitive verb to state as an opinion

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (often foll. by that + clause) hold or express as an opinion. Etymology: L opinari think, believe

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Opine O*pine", v. t. & i. [imp. & p. p. Opined; p. pr. & vb. n. Opining.] [L. opinari, p. p. opinatus; akin to opinus (in comp.) thinking, and perh. to E. apt: cf. F. opiner.] To have an opinion; to judge; to think; to suppose. --South.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(opines, opining, opined) To opine means to express your opinion. (FORMAL) 'She's probably had a row with her boyfriend,' Charles opined... He opined that the navy would have to start again from the beginning. VERB: V with quote, V that, also V on/about n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. n. Think, judge, believe, suppose, conceive, apprehend, fancy, presume, take it, be of opinion, have an opinion, ween.

Moby Thesaurus

account, account as, adjudge, adjudicate, allow, allude to, assume, be afraid, be judicious, believe, blurt, blurt out, call attention to, comment, conceive, conclude, consider, count, daresay, deduce, deem, divine, dream, esteem, estimate, exclaim, exercise judgment, expect, express an opinion, fancy, feel, form an opinion, gather, grant, guess, have a hunch, have an idea, have an impression, have an inkling, have the idea, hold, hold as, imagine, infer, interject, judge, let, let be, let drop, let fall, look upon as, maintain, make reference to, mention, muse, note, observe, pine, prefigure, presume, presuppose, presurmise, provisionally accept, reckon, refer to, reflect, regard, remark, repute, say, set down as, speak, suppose, surmise, suspect, take, take for, take for granted, take it, take to be, think, think of, trow, understand, view as, ween