copse, copps

[A corruption of coppice (q. v.).] A coppice, a shrubbery; a wood composed of brushwood or trees cut down periodically for fuel or other purposes. The trees generally planted in copses are ash, oak, chestnut, birch, and willow. "Onward, amid the copse 'gan peep A narrow inlet still and deep. Scott: The Lady of the Lake, i. 13. IMG:content-0912.png:[blocks in formation] fate, făt, färe, amidst, what, fall, father; we, wet, here, camel, her, there; or, wöre, wolf, work, whô, sốn; müte, cub, cüre, unite, cûr, rûle, füll; try, Syrian. IMG:content-0913.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][ocr errors][merged small] IMG:content-0914.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0915.png:[blocks in formation] bk. ii. "To copsy villages on either side."-Dyer: The Fleece, cop-sỹ-chos, s. [Gr. kopsichos =a blackbird.] Ornith.: A genus of birds, sub-family Erythacinæ, or Robins. Copsychus saularis is called by the natives of Ceylon the Dayal, and by the English the Magpie Robin. It is found also in India, where the rich natives set them to fight. Copt (Egyptian pronunciation, gubt or gibt), s . [Arab. Kubt , Kibt . Said to have been derived from Kupt (Coptos), a city in Upper Egypt, now Ckooft or Gooft , to which the Christians sometimes fled during persecution by the Romans. But Renaudot shows that this derivation is not satisfactory. The Rev. Dr. John Wilson considers that the Arab Gubt or Gibt is simply Gr. Aigyptos =Egypt.] 1. Ch . Hist . & Ecclesiol.: One belonging to the Coptic Church (q. v.). 2. Ethnol.: One of the old Egyptian race, though perhaps with a dash of Greek, Nubian, or Aby in i an blood. Cop-tic, a. & s. [Eng., ., Copt (q. v.), and suff. -ic.] A. As adj.: Pertaining to the people called Copts, or to their sect. B. As subst.: The language spoken by the Copts formerly or now, unle where Arabic has displaced their native tongue. [COPTIC LANGUAGE.] (1) Coptic Church : Ecclesiol. & Ch . Hist .: The remnants of once 3. Music : [COUPLER.] *cop-u-lāte, a. [Lat, copulatus , pa. par. of copulo to join: co con , and a verb apere (only found in the pa. par. apt us ) = to join, to fit.] Joined or a ociated with something else. the force of custom, copulate , and conjoined .."- Bacon : E ays. cop-u-lāte, v . t . & i . [COPULATE, a .] *A. Trans.: To join or a ociate together; to couple together. Copulated acids : Chem.: Acids in which the base and the acid are more intimately mixed than in other acids. The same as CONJUGATED ACIDS (q. v.). cop'-u-lā-ting, pr . par . , a . & s. [COPULATE, v.] A. & B. As pr. par . & particip . adj .: (See the verb.) lati on. C. As subst.: The act of sexual intercourse; copu- tus.] cop-u-lā-tion, s. [ Lat.copulatio , from copula- *1. The act of joining or coupling together. ". the copulation of monosyllables."-Pultenham: Art of Poesie. cop-u-lāt-ive, a. & s. [Eng. copulat ( e ); -ive.] together. A. As adj .: Serving to unite or link two things join'd with them by the copulative kai , -Locke: Gal . vi. 11-18, Ν. 16. IMG:content-0916.png:[ocr errors] (1) Copulative conjunction : Gram.: One which links together two or more subjects or predicates in an affirmative or negative numerous Church of Egypt that which had the proposition; as, Riches and honor come of thee. celebrated school at Alexandria. It broke off from the body Catholic in the embracing the Monophysite doctrine, viz., that not two natures, but only one, existed in Christ [MONOPHYSITES], a view from which it has never since departed. When Jacob Baradæus formed a slightly modified Monophysite sect, most of the Egyptian Christians became Jacobites. Being tyrannized over by the Greeks, they cheerfully submitted to the Mohammedans, under Amru ben Elaas, in A. D. 638, and aided him, in 640, to take Alexandria. Since then they have been trodden under foot by the Mohammedans. About 250,000 Copts still exist in Egypt, mostly in its upper province. They have a patriarch, bishops, presbyters, archdeacons, deacons, sub-deacons, lectors, cantors, and exorcists. They have two regular convents those of St. Anthony and St. Paul, with a number of secondary monasteries. (2) Coptic language : The language not of the old Egyptians who built the pyramids and covered monuments and temples with hieroglyphics, but of their succe ors subsequent to the introduction of Christianity. Theirs bore to the old Egyptian language a relation like that of the Italian to the Latin- i . e., the nucleus came from the old language, but there was an increasing ingre of foreign words. It continued till the tenth century, when it was in large measure superseded by Arabic. existed only as a written dialect, while it lived the seventeenth it had ceased to be spoken, and three dialects were recognized the Sahidic, in Upper Egypt; the Bahiric or Memphitic, in Lower Egypt; and the Bashmuric, in the Delta. IMG:content-0917.png:[blocks in formation] 2. One desirous of copulation. II. Gram .: A copulative conjunction. and disiunctiues." -Sir T. More: Works, p. 943. cop'-u-lat-ive-lý, adv . [Eng. copulative; -ly.] In a copulative manner; by means of a copulative. he dyscerneth nothing betwene copulatiues