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English Dictionary: OPTIONAL by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
optional
adj
  1. possible but not necessary; left to personal choice [ant: obligatory]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Optional \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.
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