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copious, a.|ˈkəʊpɪəs|
Forms: 4–6 -yous, -iouse, 4–9 copious, (5 -yowse, -yose, -iose, 6 -eus).
[ad. L. cōpiōs-us plentiful, f. cōpia plenty: cf. F. copieux (16th c. in Littré).]
†1. Furnished plentifully with anything; having or yielding an abundant supply of; abounding in; Obs. exc. as in copious sources, where it passes into 3.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) II. 17 (Mätz.) Þe erþe of that lond is copious of metal ore. 1398― Barth. De P.R. xiii. vii. (1495) 444 Eufrates..is moost copyous in gemmes and precyous stones. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 287 A copious londe, and habundant in marchaundise. a1533Frith Bk. agst. Rastell (1829) 218 He is more copious in labours, in stripes above measure. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, iv. iv. 135. 1596 Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. (1885) 14 A certane toune copious in citizenis. 1632Lithgow Trav. iii. (1682) 106 It is indifferent copious of all things necessary for humane life. 1720Gay Poems (1745) I. 172 Newgate's copious market. 1784Cowper Task vi. 162 Copious of flow'rs the woodbine, pale and wan. 1838Prescott Ferd. & Is. (1846) I. Introd. 53 More copious sources of knowledge.
2. In pregnant sense:
a. Abounding in information; full of matter.
a1500Orol. Sap. in Anglia X. 327 Þei þat bene copiose and habundant in þe letterere science. 1561T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer i. H iv, Those studyes shall make him copyous. 1630Prynne Anti-Armin. 102 Our learned Diuinity Professors are full and copious in this point. 1652Needham tr. Selden's Mare Cl. 41 Touching which particular both the Canonists and Civilians are very copious. 1716–8Lady M. W. Montague Lett. I. xxxviii. 149 This copious subject has drawn me from my description of the exchange. 1775Johnson Let. Mrs. Thrale 20 July, You have two or three of my letters to answer, and I hope you will be copious and distinct, and tell me a great deal of your mind. 1868Gladstone Juv. Mundi i. (1869) 13 The Iliad and Odyssey give a picture of the age to which they refer, alike copious and animated, comprehensive and minute.
†b. Having a plentiful command of language for the expression of ideas. Obs.
1430Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. xvi, And of wordes wonder copyous. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. (Arb.) 94 It is a signe that such a maker is not copious in his owne language. 1672Marvell Reh. Transp. i. 50 Our author seems copious, but is indeed very poor of expression.
c. Profuse in speech; diffuse or exuberant in style or treatment.
c1430Lydg. Stans Puer 74 in Babees Bk. (1868) 28 Be not to copiose [v.r. copious] of langage. 1528More Dialogue i. xxiii. Wks. 153 She will waxe copious and chop logicke. 1710Steele Tatler No. 244 ⁋2 When you see a Fellow watch for Opportunities for being Copious. 1732Berkeley Alciphr. iii. §15 Declaimers of a copious vein. 1851Thackeray Eng. Hum. iii. (1858) 112 A copious Archdeacon, who has the command of immense papers, of sonorous language.
d. Of a language: Having a large vocabulary.
1549Compl. Scot. Prol. 17 Oure scottis tong is nocht sa copeus as is the lateen tong. 1651Hobbes Leviath. iv. xlvi. 379 French, English, or any other copious language. 1772–7Sir W. Jones Poems, Ess. i. 172 Their language is..the most copious, perhaps, in the world.
3. Existing in rich abundance; plentiful; abundant. Now chiefly used with ns. expressing production or supply, or in reference to quantity produced; with names of material substances, it is obs. or arch., but is used of literary materials.
1382Wyclif Acts xxii. 6 In the mydday..a copious liȝt schon aboute me. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) I. 399 There lyme is copious and slattes for house. 1414Brampton Penit. Ps. cix. 41 Oure raumsoun is ful copyous, For thou art redy thi grace to sende. 1486Bk. St. Albans, Her. C j b, If the coloure of the poynt be more copiose or gretter in thos armys. 1609Bible (Douay) 1 Macc. ix. 35 To desire..that they would lend him their provision which was copious. 1667Milton P.L. vii. 325 Rose as in Dance the stately Trees, and spred Their branches hung with copious Fruit. 1691Ray Creation i. (1704) 67 Sea-water, containing a copious Salt. 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet 287 The copious Use of Vinegar. 1762Falconer Shipwr. i. 158 The copious produce of her fertile plains. 1794Sullivan View Nat. I. 212 The moisture..is quickly condensed..and falls down in copious dews. 1838T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 714 Diacetate of lead throws down a copious white precipitate. 1845Florist's Jrnl. 94 Which..induces a more copious display of flowers. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. vi. (1857) 98 A clear and copious spring comes bubbling out at its base. 1860Trollope Framley P. i. 3 Her hair which was copious. 1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. xix. 455 The evidence collected is exceedingly copious.
†b. Multitudinous, numerous. Obs.
1382Wyclif 1 Macc. x. 1 Kyng Demetrie..gadride an oost ful copiouse. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 321 The peple of hit is copious, of semely stature. 1609Bible (Douay) 1 Macc. v. 6 A strong band, and a copious people. 1715–20Pope Iliad i. 534 To heap the shores with copious death. 1741Betterton Eng. Stage vi. 82 We shall..conclude with the Actions of the Hands, more copious and various than all the other Parts of the Body.
4. as adv. = copiously.
1791Cowper Iliad xvii. 104 And from his wide wound bleeding copious still. 1808J. Barlow Columb. ii. 397 Buried gold drawn copious from the mine. |