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than positive knowledge; settled judgment in regard to any point of knowledge or action. Opinion is when the assent of the understanding is so far gained by evidence of probability, that it rather inclines to one persussion than to another, yet not without a mixture of incertainty or doubting. Sir M. Hale. I can not p…

Being, or capable of being, a matter of opinion; that can be thought; not positively settled; as, an opinionable doctrine. C. J. Ellicott.

Opinionated.

Stiff in opinion; firmly or unduly adhering to one's own opinion or to preconceived notions; obstinate in opinion. Sir W. Scott.

Conceitedly. Feltham.

An opinionist. [Obs.]

Unduly attached to one's own opinions; opinionated. Milton.

An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. [Obs.] South.

Opinionated; conceited. His opinioned zeal which he thought judicious. Milton.

One fond of his own notions, or unduly attached to his own opinions. Glanvill.

Want or difference of belief; disbelief. [Obs.] Bp. Reynolds.

Wrong opinion. [Obs.]

Opinion previously formed; prepossession; prejudice. Sir T. Browne.

Opinion, especially high opinion, of one's self; an overweening estimate of one's self or of one's own opinion. Collier.

Having a high opinion of one's self; opinionated; conceited. South.

Taking away or removing. [Obs.] Where the heart is forestalled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. Bp. Hall.

To withdraw; to separate; to take away. He was incapable of forming any opinion or resolution abstracted from his own prejudices. Sir W. Scott.

sense; logically contradictory; nonsensical; ridiculous; as, an absurd person, an absurd opinion; an absurd dream. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak. 'This phrase absurd to call a villain great. Pope. p. 9

Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent. A mediator of an accord and peace between them. Bacon. These all continued with one accord in prayer. Acts i. 14.

- On one's own account, for one's own interest or behalf. -- To make account, to have an opinion or expectation; to reckon. [Obs.] s other part . . . makes account to find no slender arguments for this assertion out of those very scriptures which are commonly urged against it. Milton. -- To make account of, to hold in…