cope

intj

Etymology: Etymology tree Old French couperder. English cope From Middle English coupen, from Old French coper, couper (“to strike, to cut”). The noun use went mainstream around 2020.

1. An expression of spite towards someone who suffered a setback.

   “"The other guy cheated, I had no chance!" "Cope."”

2. A contemptuous dismissal, implying that someone should deal with some problem on their own and that the speaker will not engage any further.

name

1. A surname.
2. A locality in the Mid-Western council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
3. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Washington County, Colorado, United States.
4. An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Indiana, United States.
5. A town in Orangeburg County, South Carolina, United States.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English cope, from Medieval Latin cāpa (“cape”) Doublet of cap, cape, and chape.

1. A long, loose cloak worn by a priest, deacon, or bishop when presiding over a ceremony other than the Mass.

   “[…] there went firſt 160 Prieſts, all in their Copes, eight Biſhops next, […]”

   “He possessed a gorgeous cope of crimson silk and gold-thread damask, figured with a repeating pattern of golden pomegranates set in six-petalled formal blossoms, beyond which on either side was the pine-apple device wrought in seed-pearls.”

2. Any covering such as a canopy or a mantle.
3. The vault or canopy of the skies, heavens etc.

   “the starry cope of heaven”

   “Who perceiveth and seeth himselfe placed here,[…]farthest from heavens coape, with those creatures, that are the worst of the three conditions; and yet dareth imaginarily place himselfe above the circle of the Moone, and reduce heaven under his feet.”

4. A covering piece on top of a wall exposed to the weather, usually made of metal, masonry, or stone, and sloped to carry off water.
5. The top part of a sand casting mold.
6. An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.

verb

Etymology: Unknown

1. To tie or sew up the mouth of a ferret used for hunting rabbits.

   “His nimble ferrets must now become pioners for their master who coupes them, lest they should grow too fat to endure labour.”

   “The use of this word is confined to warreners, who are said to 'cope' their ferrets, when they sew or tie up their mouths, to prevent them from biting rabbits, when they are used to drive them from their holes.”

2. To silence or prevent from speaking.

   “Well sir? how triflingly soeuer you trauers the matter, these my Philosophicall proceedings (for any thing hitherto heard) might fullie suffice to put your fantasticall fooleries to a perpetuall non-sute: were you not like to the rauenous Ferret, which rendeth in peeces whatsoeuer poore Rabbet doth come in her reach. And therefore it shall not be amisse to cope vp your lips a little, by taking foorthwith so strict a course as you shall neuer be able to contradict with all your skill: which may in this sort be verie fitly effected.”

   “And tell me Signior, why when you eate our good cheare i'th City, haue you handſome wide chops, but meeting vs at Court, none; your gumme's glew'd vp, your lips coap'd like a Ferret, not ſo much as the corner of a Cuſtard; if a cold cup, and a dry cheate loaf 'tis well.”