The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.
I haue bought / Golden Opinions from all ſorts of people, […]
Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.
Thou haſt redeemed thy loſt opinion, […]
To have or express as an opinion.
Philoſophers that opinioned the vvorlds deſtruction by fire, did never dreame of annihilation, vvhich is beyond the povver of ſublunary cauſes; for the laſt and proper action of that element [fire] is but vitrification, or a reduction of a body into Glaſſe, and therefore ſome of our Chymicks factiouſly affirme; yea, and urge Scripture for it, that at the laſt fire all ſhall be cryſtallized and reverberated into Glaſſe, vvhich is the utmoſt action of that element.
From English opine + -ion, from Middle English opinion, opinioun, from Anglo-Norman and Middle French opinion, from Latin opīniō, from opīnor (“to opine”). Displaced native Old English wēna.
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