▪ I. culp
obs. Sc. form of cup.
▪ II. † culp(e Obs.
Also 4–5 cope, coupe, 5–6 coulpe.
[a. OF. coulpe (colpe, culpe, coupe, cope), f. L. culpa fault, blame.
After the Fr. word had regularly become coupe, the l was restored from Latin, and was at length pronounced.]
Guilt, sin, fault, blame.
| [1292 Britton i. xxix. §3 Par sa coupe ou par sa negligence.] 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. v. 305 And kaires hym to⁓kirke-ward his coupe to schewe. c 1386 Chaucer Pars. T. ¶261 Baptisme..which bynymeþ vs þe culpe. 1483 Caxton G. de la Tour I vj, Sayeng that she had no culpe of this dede. c 1489 ― Blanchardyn xxii. 74 Thourgh the coulpe of a knyght. 1513 Hen. VIII in Strype Eccl. Mem. I. App. iii. 6 We do not impute the culp and blame thereof in any person. 1549 Compl. Scot. xvii. 155 The coulpe of our synnis. 1601 Queen Elizabeth in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 354, I hope God will not lay their culps to my charge. |