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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Op·ta·tive a.  Expressing desire or wish.
 Optative mood Gram., that mood or form of a verb, as in Greek, Sanskrit, etc., in which a wish or desire is expressed.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 optative mood
      n : a mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or
          hope; expressed in English by modal verbs [syn: optative]