Coped

ppl. a. Also 7 copped. [f. COPE sb. or v.¹ + -ED.]

  1.  Wearing a cope.

1447.  Bokenham, Seyntys (Roxb.), 34. And the Abot copyd wyth his munkys alle.

c. 1450.  Two Cookery-bks., 68. His Croser kneling behinde him, coped.

1637.  N. Whiting, Albino & Bellama, 140. During the time that you were cowld and coap’t.

1852.  Rock, Ch. of Fathers, III. I. 371. Headed by coped and surpliced choristers.

  2.  Having the top or upper surface sloping down on each side like a coping.

1611.  Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., VII. viii. 235. Whose body was intombed in a Coffin of Gray Marble, the couer copped. Ibid., VII. xliv. 366. His … bones as yet remaine … in a Chest of Grey-Marble, reared vpon foure small pillars, couered with a copped stone of the same.

1766.  Entick, London, IV. 275. The rest are coped stones, all of grey marble.

1845.  Ecclesiologist, IV. 21. There is an unusual but very becoming kind of monument, which may be called the coped high tomb.

1870.  F. R. Wilson, Ch. Lindisf., 99. A large stone coffin with a coped lid was uncovered.

  Coped, obs. f. COPPED.