[app. f. COPS sb.; but possibly f. COPSE sb.] trans. To fasten or shut up; to confine, enclose. Also fig.

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1617.  Hales, Gold. Rem. (1688), 15. Not to suffer your labours to be copst and mued up within the poverty of some pretended method.

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1647.  Farindon, Serm. (1672), I. 146. Why should we paraphrase Mercy, and coyn distinctions and draw our limitations as it were to copse her up and confine her…? Ibid. (1657), Serm., 439 (T.). Nature it self hath cops’d and bound us in from flying out.

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