Copturus (kopturus)

[NL. (Schönherr, 1838), irreg. meta sternum, which often presents a depre ion into which it fits; the prothorax is grooved acro the fore border; the elytra are plane, triangular, or or oval, usually short, sometimes spiny at the end; and the body is very thick, and rhomboidal in shape. 1257 2. Sexual connection; coition. Sundry kinds, even of conjugal copulation , are prohibited as unhonest. Hooker , Eccles. Polity, iv. § 11. Copulation of parts, in logic , such a junction that the end of one part is the beginning of another, as with the parts of time. copulative (kop'ū-lā-tiv), a. and n. [= F. co pulatif Sp. Pg. It. copulativo, If Hegel's 'being' were the mere infinitive of the copula 'is,' as Erdmann thought, not only would whatever copu lative force it might retain still presuppose two terms to be connected, but it is impo ible to empty the word of all notion of existence. G. S. Hall , German Culture, p. 163. 2. Relating or pertaining to copulation. - Copulative conjunction, in gram., a conjunction joining together two coördinate clauses, or coördinate members of a clause; the conjunction and, and any other, as also, having a nearly like office: as, he went and she came; riches and honors are temptations to pride. - Copulative proposition. See proposition. II. n. 1. A copulative conjunction.-21. Connection. A fourth wife, which makes more than one copulative in the rule of marriage. Rycaut , Greek and Armenian Churches, p. 307. 3. One who copulates. [Rare.] I pre in here, sir, amongst the rest of the country copulatives , to swear, and to forswear, according as marriage binds, and blood breaks. Shak ., As you Like it, v. 4. copulatively (kop'ū-lā-tiv-li), adv . In a copulative manner. Hammond. copulatory (kop'u-lā-to-ri), a. [ copulate + -ory.] 1. Relating or pertaining to copulation: specifically, in zool . , applied to the acce ory generative organs.-2. Uniting; copulative.Copulatory pouch, in entom ., a cavity or sac in the abdomen of a female insect, destined to receive the fertiliz ing fluid during copulation; a kind of spermatheca. copyhold I would not deface your copy for the future, and only mark the repetitions. Pope , To H. Cromwell, Nov. 29, 1707. 6. Right to the use of literary manuscript; copyright. I use the word copy , in the technical sense in which that name or term has been used for ages, to signify an incorporeal right to the sole printing and publishing of somewhat intellectual communicated by letters. Lord Mans field , quoted in Drone. It... will bring me in three hundred pounds, exclusive of the sale of the copy . Sterne, Letters, No. 55. 7t. A copyhold tenure; tenure in general. Macb. Thou know'st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives. Lady M. But in them nature's copy's not eterne. Shak., Macbeth, iii. 2. I finde that Waltham Abbey (for Benedictines at the first) had its copie altered by King Henry the Second, and bestowed on August in i ans. Fuller, Ch. Hist., vi. 1. 8. A size of writing-paper measuring 16 × 20 inches. E. H. Knight . - Blind copy. See blind1.Certified copy. Same as office copy (which see, below). - Copy of one's countenancet, a mask; a pretense. But this [acquiescence), as he afterwards confe ed on his death-bed, was only a copy of his countenance. Fielding , Jonathan Wild, iii. 14. ... If this application for my advice is not a copy of your countenance , a mask, if you are obedient, I may yet set you right. Foote , The Author, ii. Dead copy, in printing, copy that has been set up in type. - Exemplified copy. See exemplify. - Foul copy, the first rough draft of any writing, defaced with alterations, corrections, obliterations, etc.: opposed to fair or clean copy. Office copy, in law, a transcript of a proceeding or record in the proper office of a court, authenticated by the officer having custody of the record, and usually under the seal of such office. Also called certified copy. - Το cast off copy. See cast1.- To change one's copyt, to alter one's conduct; adopt a different course. Methinks Euphues chaunging so your colour, vpon the sodeine, you wil soone chaunge your coppie. Lyly , Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 80. To hold copy, to act as a copy-holder, or a proof-reader's bá, tail.] A ge 1841), filicauda ). copy (kop'i), n.; pl. copies (-iz). [Early mod. E. also coppy, coppie, copie; abundance, plenty, a transcript, copula (kop'u-la), n.; pl. copulas , copulæ (-läz, -lē). [L. copula , a band, bond, link, contr. of * co - apula , dim., co- , together, + apere , in pp. apt us , join: see apt . Hence (from the L.) ult. couple, which is thus doublet of copula .] 1. copie , abundance, In gram , and logic , that word or part of a propo- sition which expre es the relation between the subject and the predicate. Thus, in the proposition "Religion is indispensable to happine ," is is the copula joining religion , the subject, with indispensable to happi- ne , the predicate, and itself expre ing merely the pred- ication or a ertion which is the e ential element of a sentence. Any other verb is capable of being analyzed into the copula and a predicate: thus, "he lives " into "he is living ," and so on. 2. In an organ, same as coupler.-3. In an at., some coupling or connecting part, usually distinguished by a qualifying term; es especially, a median bone or cartilage connecting hyoidean hy and branchial arches, and also uniting opposite halves of these arches respectively, as a bas i branchial. copy, F. copie (> D. kopij = G. copie = Dan. Sw. kop i ), a transcript, copy, Pr. Sp. Pg. It. copia, IMG:content-1274.png:[blocks in formation] abundance, a transcript, copy, dance, plenty, mult plenty, multitude, facilities, opportuni (from the notion of abun ty, hence also, in ML. (from dance, dance, plenty), plenty), a a transcript, copy; prob. contr. from * co - opia, opes, riches (cf. inopia , want): vant): see opulent.] 11. Abun- dance; plenty; copiousne . This Spayne hath grete copy and plente of cas- tell[es], of hors, of metal, and of hony. Trevis a, Works (ed. Babington), I. 301. It is the part of every obsequious servant to be sure to All the branchial arches are united ventrally by azygos pieces the copulæ . Gegenbaur , Comp. Anat. (trans.), p. 469. 4. In law, sexual intercourse. - Balanced copula, in logic, a copula which signifies a relation of equip a rance between subject and predicate. - Copula hyoidea, copula lingual is, in an at., the basis of the hyoid bone; the basihyal considered as the piece connecting the opposite halves of the hyoidean gill-arch. - Copula of inclusion, in logic, a copula which signifies that the objects denoted by the subject are among those denoted by the predicate.