copybook

An exercise-book in which copies are written or printed for learners to IMG:content-0918.png:[blocks in formation] Glo ary , pp. 44-5.) *2. Fluency or copiousne of language. "He shal not onely atteyne plentie of the tonges called copie , ."-Sir T. Elyot: Governor, bk. i., ch. x. 3. The multiplication of copies of a book or any Bot.: A genus of plants, order Ranunculaceæ, tribe Helleboree, sepals 5 or 6, colored petaloid, writing or document, being the way to obtain abun- petals small cucullate, capsules 6-10 on long stalks, dance of it; a transcript. 4-6 seeded. Coptis trifolia , Gold-thread, is a bitter, the copy should deviate from the original."- given in the United States as a cure for aphthous Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , ch. xiii. IMG:content-0919.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0920.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To do anything in imitation of an original or pattern; to make a coру. (1) Followed by from before the thing copied. "When a painter copies from the life,."-Dryden. (2) Followed by after. "Several of our countrymen .. seem very often to have copied after it in their dramatic writings, -Add is on: Spectator. 2. To write down or transcribe the words, figures, ., of another, with the intention of fraudulently pa ing them off for one's own. "The temptation presents itself to those slower or carele members of the cla to copy from their quicker cla -fellows."- Fearon : School Inspection , p. 56. (1) Crabb thus discriminates between to copy and to transcribe: "To copy respects the matter; to transcribe respects simply the act of writing. What is copied must be taken immediately from the original, with which it must exactly correspond; what is transcribed may be taken from the copy , but not nece arily in an entire state. Things are copied for the sake of getting the contents; they are often transcribed for the sake of clearne and fair writing. A copier should be very exact; a transcriber should be a good writer. Lawyers copy deeds, and have them afterward frequently transcribed as occasion requires." (Crabb: Eng. Synon .) (2) For the difference between to copy and to imitate, see IMITATE.