▪ I. coped, ppl. a.
(kəʊpt)
Also 7 copped.
[f. cope n. or v.1 + -ed.]
1. Wearing a cope.
| 1447 O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 34 And the Abot copyd wyth his munkys alle. c 1450 Two Cookery-bks. 68 His Croser kneling behinde him, coped. 1637 N. Whiting Albino & Bellama 140 During the time that you were cowl'd and coaped. 1852 Rock Ch. of Fathers III. i. 371 Headed by coped and surpliced choristers. |
2. Having the top or upper surface sloping down on each side like a coping.
| 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vii. viii. 235 Whose body was intombed in a Coffin of Gray Marble, the couer copped. Ibid. vii. xliv. 366 His..bones as yet remaine..in a Chest of Grey-Marble, reared vpon foure small pillars, couered with a copped stone of the same. 1766 Entick London IV. 275 The rest are coped stones, all of grey marble. 1845 Ecclesiologist IV. 21 There is an unusual but very becoming kind of monument, which may be called the coped high tomb. 1870 F. R. Wilson Ch. Lindisf. 99 A large stone coffin with a coped lid was uncovered. |
▪ II. coped
obs. f. copped.