Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who copes with another in friendly offices; a companion or friend.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An associate or companion; a friend; a partner.
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- noun obsolete An
associate orcompanion ; afriend ; apartner .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The other oracles and responses did in the general prognosticate you a cuckold, without descending so near to the point of a particular determination as to pitch upon what vocation amongst the several sorts of men he should profess who is to be the copesmate of your wife and hornifier of your proper self.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The other oracles and responses did in the general prognosticate you a cuckold, without descending so near to the point of a particular determination as to pitch upon what vocation amongst the several sorts of men he should profess who is to be the copesmate of your wife and hornifier of your proper self.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The other oracles and responses did in the general prognosticate you a cuckold, without descending so near to the point of a particular determination as to pitch upon what vocation amongst the several sorts of men he should profess who is to be the copesmate of your wife and hornifier of your proper self.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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US Railway Association, Standard Cipher Code, 1906: Railroad telegraphers' shorthand for the phrase "No change in conditions".
January 21, 2013