Obs. Also 7 -doup, dupa. [a. F. catadoupe, catadupe, ad. L. catadūpa (pl.), ad. Gr. κατάδουποι (pl.) the cataracts of the Nile, f. κατά down + δοῦπος thud, heavy sound of falling, δουπέ-ειν to sound heavy, fall with a thud. (But see Liddell and Scott.)]
1. A cataract or waterfall, orig. those of the Nile.
1596. Lodge, Wit’s Miserie, D iiij (N.). Sien of my Science in the Catadupe of my knowledge, I nourish the Crocodile of thy conceit.
1662. Fuller, Worthies, III. 142. In the River Caun in this County, there be two Catadupæ or Waterfalls.
1681. Chetham, Angler’s Vade-m., ii. § 1. (1689), 111. At Kilgarran upon the Tivy … is a Catadoup, or very high Cataract.
1708. Motteux, Rabelais, IV. xxxiv. The Catadupes of the Nile in Ethiopia.
1755. J. Ismay, in Yorksh. N. & Q., I. 206. The dams across the river are in the nature of Cataracts, and are a sort of catadupes.
2. pl. [L. Catadūpi.] The dwellers by the cataracts of the Nile.
1607. Brewer, Lingua, III. vii. (R.). The Egiptian Catadupes neuer heard the roringe of the fall of Nilus, because the noise was so familiar vnto them.
