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▪ I. † aˈcoup(e, v.1 Obs.
Forms: 3 acoup-en, 4 acope, acoupe, 5 acoulpe.
[a. OFr. acope-r, acolper, aculper, acoulper, acouper; f. à to + coulper, couper, to blame:—L. culpā-re, f. culpa fault, blame; or ? for earlier encolper, encouper:—L. inculpā-re. Adculpāre is not found in L. Subseq. refashioned as accoup: see ac-.]
To accuse.
1297R. Glouc. 544 Me acoupede hom harde inou, & suththe atte laste, As theues & traitors, in strong prison me hom caste. c1300Life of Beket 773 The King sat anheȝ on his cee, and acopede him faste. 1340Hampole Pr. of Consc. 2947 A man has drede bodily, When he es acouped of felony. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xiii. 459 Til conscience acouped hym þere-of · in a curteise manere. 1480Caxton Chron. cxcviii, And Syre Robert hym acoulped in thys maner. 1717Blount Law Dict., Accouped, His conscience accouped him [quoted from P. Pl. as above]. So Bailey 1731.
▪ II. † aˈcoup(e, v.2 Obs.
[a. OFr. *acolpe-r, acoupe-r, to strike on (not in Godef.); f. à to + couper to strike, cut; f. coup, OFr. colp, stroke, blow:—late L. colpus:—colapus, colaphus, a. Gr. κόλαϕος a cuff.]
To strike, shower blows.
c1380Sir Ferumb. 1594 So harde þay acoupede on hur scheldes? þat broke buþ boþe hure schafte. |