Crossword-Solution: OPTATIVE 8 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Light Choiseul, a clever man, but an unwise, of the sort called "dashing," had entertained the matter merely in the optative form,--and when it came nearer, wished to use it for making mischief between Pitt and Friedrich, and for worming out Edelsheim's secrets, if he had any,--for which reason he finally threw Edelsheim into the Bastille for a few days.

The Imperative and Optative moods clearly do not convey assertions at all, while the Subjunctive can only figure as a subordinate member of some assertion.

Some would find a first and a third person imperative in such sentences as "Now tread _we_ a measure"; "_Perish_ the _thought_." But these verbs express strong wish or desire and by some grammarians are called "optative subjunctives." "Perish the thought" = "May the thought perish," or "I desire that the thought may perish," or "Let the thought perish."] INFINITIVES.

The subjunctive, therefore, does not depend upon _quin_, but upon the optative meaning of the sentence.

With verbs of _wishing_, _desiring_, especially cupiō, optō, volō, mālō (conjunctions ut, nē, ut nē); as,-- optō ut in hōc jūdiciō nēmō improbus reperiātur, _I hope that in this court no bad man may be found_ (here ut reperiātur represents a simple optative of direct statement, viz.