Section M, N, and O

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-- Choice; preference; selection. -- Option,
Choice. Choice is an act of choosing; option
often means liberty to choose, and implies freedom from constraint in
the act of choosing.

Op"tion*al (?), a. Involving an
option; depending on the exercise of an option; left to one's
discretion or choice; not compulsory; as, optional studies; it
is optional with you to go or stay. --
n. See Elective,
n.

If to the former the movement was not optional,
it was the same that the latter chose when it was
optional.

Palfrey.

Original writs are either optional or
peremptory.

Blackstone.

Op"tion*al*ly, adv. In an optional
manner.

{ Op"to*cœle (?), ||Op`to*cœ"li*a
(?), } n. [NL. optocoelia, fr. Gr. &?; optic
+ koi^los a hollow.] (Anat.) The cavity of one
of the optic lobes of the brain in many animals. B. G.
Wilder.

Op"to*gram (?), n.

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