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...OP'TIMIBT, n. -mist, one who hol-Js that all events are ordered for the best: see OPTIMISM, below. OPTIMISM: doctrine of those philosophers and divines who hold that the existing order of things, whatever its seeming imperfections of detail, is nevertheless, as a whole, the most perfect or the best which...