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▪ I. † ˈcopulate, a. (n.) Obs.
[ad. L. cōpulāt-us linked, coupled, pa. pple. of cōpulāre: see next.]
1. Connected, coupled; conjoined, united. (In first quot. const. as pa. pple.)
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 108 These ij. wordes, Iebus and Salem, copulate to gedre, this worde, Ierusalem, resultethe. 1607–12Bacon Ess., Custom (Arb.) 372 If the force of Custome Simple and Separate be greate; the force of Custome Copulate and Conioyn'd..is farre greater. 1645Milton Tetrach. (1851) 243 Is our commission..to take the parts of a copulat axiom, both absolutely affirmative, and to say the first is absolutely true, the other not?
2. Serving to connect, copulative.
b. as n. A copulative word.
1631Gouge God's Arrows i. 1 This copulate particle And. 1672Penn Spirit Truth Vind. 133 Gerunds, Adjectives, Conjunctives, Copulates, Subjunctives, Prepositions.
▪ II. copulate, v.|ˈkɒpjuːleɪt|
[f. L. cōpulāt-, ppl. stem of cōpulāre to fasten together, link, couple, f. cōpula: see above.]
†1. trans. To couple, conjoin, link together. Obs.
1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. iii. iii. 45 Things of themselves most opposite, were copulated and linked together. 1677Ibid. iv. Proem 7 The parts of an hypothetic proposition are copulated by the conditional particle, ‘if’. 1822T. Taylor Apuleius 328 Copulated, like syllables, by a mutual connexion.
†2. intr. To become conjoined or united. Obs.
c1645Howell Lett. (1650) I. 60 The two nations must needs copulate and mix.
3. intr. To unite in sexual congress. (Now chiefly a term of Zoology.)
1632Lithgow Trav. iv. (1682) 149 The devout Mahometans..accompting themselves damned to copulate (as they think) with the off-spring of doggs. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 261 All that urine backward do copulate πυγηδὸν, clunatim, or aversly. 1703Quick Dec. Wife's Sister 20 It had been..an hainous Sin..in the Brother to have copulated with this Widow. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) III. 134 When the copulating season is over. 1828Stark Elem. Nat. Hist. II. 12 These animals..do not copulate, but the males shed a fecundating fluid upon the ova deposited by the females. |