cope

• POS: Noun, Verb (intransitive), Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

cope, n. [A doublet of cape. See Cape, Cap.].

•  A covering for the head.  Johnson.  [1913 Webster]
•  Anything regarded as extended over the head, as the arch or concave of the sky, the roof of a house, the arch over a door.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]
•  An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, where it is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions.  Piers plowman.  [1913 Webster]

  "A hundred and sixty priests all in their copes."  [1913 Webster]
•  An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.  [1913 Webster]
•  The top part of a flask or mold; the outer part of a loam mold.  Knight. De Colange.  [1913 Webster]

cope, v. i. 

 To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.  [1913 Webster]
"Some bending down and coping toward the earth."  [1913 Webster]

cope, v. t. 

 To pare the beak or talons of (a hawk).  J. H. Walsh.  [1913 Webster]

cope, v. i. [OE. copen, coupen, to buy, bargain, prob. from D. koopen to buy, orig., to bargain. See Cheap.].

•  To exchange or barter.  Spenser.  [1913 Webster]
•  To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.  [1913 Webster]

  "Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man
  As e'er my conversation coped withal."  [1913 Webster]
•  To enter into or maintain a hostile contest; to struggle; to combat; especially, to strive or contend on equal terms or with success; to match; to equal; -- usually followed by with.  [1913 Webster]

  "Host coped with host, dire was the din of war."  [1913 Webster]

  "Their generals have not been able to cope with the troops of Athens."  [1913 Webster]

cope, v. t. 

•  To bargain for; to buy.  [1913 Webster]
•  To make return for; to requite; to repay.  [1913 Webster]

  "three thousand ducats due unto the Jew,
  We freely cope your courteous pains withal."  [1913 Webster]
•  To match one's self against; to meet; to encounter.  [1913 Webster]

  "I love to cope him in these sullen fits."  [1913 Webster]

  "They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle, and struck him down."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

cope, v.intr.
1 (foll. by with) deal effectively or contend successfully with a person or task.
2 manage successfully; deal with a situation or problem (found they could no longer cope).

cope, n. & v.
--n.
1 Eccl. a long cloaklike vestment worn by a priest or bishop in ceremonies and processions.
2 esp. poet. a covering compared with a cope.
--v.tr. cover with a cope or coping.

Etymology

ME ult. f. LL cappa CAP, CAPE(1)

THESAURUS

cope

apply to, blanket, block, canopy, challenge, cloak, clothe, cloud, come through, compete, compete with, contend against, contend with, cope with, cover, cover up, cowl, curtain, deal with, dispose of, do with, eclipse, eke out, emulate, film, get along, get along on, get by, get by on, handle, hood, jockey, keep afloat, lay on, lay over, make do, make ends meet, make out, makeshift, manage, manage with, mantle, mask, meet, muffle, obduce, obscure, occult, outvie, overlay, overspread, put on, rival, scrape along, screen, scum, shield, spread over, subsist, superimpose, superpose, survive, test one another, veil, vie, vie with, withstand

ROGET THESAURUS

cope

Canonicals

N canonicals, vestments, robe, gown, Geneva gown frock, pallium, surplice, cassock, dalmatic, scapulary, cope, mozetta, scarf, tunicle, chasuble, alb, alba, stole, fanon, fannel, tonsure, cowl, hood, calote, calotte, bands, capouch, amice, vagas, vakas, vakass, apron, lawn sleeves, pontificals, pall, miter, tiara, triple crown, shovel hat, cardinal's hat, biretta, crosier, pastoral staff, thurifer, costume.