v. Obs. 6–7, also 6 acople, acouple. [a. OFr. acople-r, later acouple-r, to join in a couple, f. à to + cople, couple, COUPLE. Refashioned Fr. spelling accoupler (see AC-) also followed in Eng.] To join one thing to another, to couple.
1486. Plumpton Corr., 50. Ye be acopled as brether and sisters.
1605. Bacon, Adv. Learn., II. 14. That application which he accoupleth it withal.
1613. Sir H. Finch, Law (1636), 369. They were never accoupled in lawfull matrimonie.
1622. Bacon, Henry VII., 81. Accoupling it with an Article in the nature of a Request.
1635. D. Person, Varieties, II. ix. Fire being accoupled to a matter contrary to its owne nature … this terrestriall matter draweth the fire perforce with it.
