opinionnoun/əˈpɪn.jən/

• 1

  A belief, judgment or perspective that a person has formed, either through objective or subjective reasoning, about a topic, issue, person or thing.

  • I would like to know your opinions on the new filing system.
  • In my opinion, white chocolate is better than milk chocolate.
• 2

  The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.

  • I haue bought / Golden Opinions from all ſorts of people, […]
  • Friendship […] gives a man a peculiar right and claim to the good opinion of his friend.
• 3

  obsoleteFavorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.

  • Thou haſt redeemed thy loſt opinion, […]
  • This gain’d Agricola much opinion; who […] had made ſuch early progreſs into laborious […] enterpriſes.
• 4

  obsoleteObstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.

  • […] your reaſons at Dinner haue been ſharpe & ſententious: pleaſant without ſcurillitie, wittie without affection, audatious without impudencie, learned without opinion, and ſtrange without hereſie: […]
• 5

  The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially called upon to consider and decide upon a matter or point submitted.

• 6

  lawA judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice where he or she proposes a legal solution to the cases for which the court is responsible.

opinionverb/əˈpɪn.jən/

• 1

  archaicTo 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.
  • But if (as some opinion) King Ahasuerus were Artaxerxes Mnemon[…], our magnified Cyrus was his second Brother […]