[f. prec.] trans. To engrave on and print from a copper-plate.
1822. Scott, Lett., 15 March, in Lockhart. It will be time for him to be copperplated, as Joseph Gillon used to call it, when he is a Major General.
1881. Sir J. Benedict, Weber, 84. The notes flowed to his pen with the marks of all the shading of expression, as if copper-plated on the paper.
