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cap

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Searchable Lemmata: cappare (L), cappen (ME), cap (MdE), cape (MdE).
Alternate Forms: cappatus, capparo, cappati, capped, cappid, cappud, cappyd, capatus, capatos, captatus, i-cappid.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(vb.) Law/Custom; to put a cap on someone. By extension and in ceremonial uses: to induct into the chaplaincy [also form cappellare].(ante 1425)
1. 3our capped maistres ... galpen after grace bi symonye Poetic. ('priestly' / 'wearing priests' caps') [MED Topias ((Dgb 41) p.100) 1402]
2. Men þat stode be sidis, I-cappid & I-hurid, Wist wele that Beryn shuld have þe wers mes Heroic, Romance. (work: c1400?) [MED Beryn ((Nthld 55) 1772) circa 1460]
3. cappyd, cappatus; to cappe, capparo Gloss. [DMLBS CathA (cappatus, capparo) circa 1483]
L; Primarily Gloss.
Sex: Male    Use: Ecclesiastical    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: Yes
Body Parts: Head.
1b(psp.) Law/Custom; 'caped', wearing a cape or similar covering garment (especially a monastic cape, cope or cowl [cucullus]).(circa 1180 - ante 1425)
1. ex hoc profecto dicere fuit quod 'cappati multi, canonici sed pauci;' pauci ... in perfectione viventes monachali multiplicati ... cucullati Ecclesiastic/Regula. [DMLBS AD. SCOT (OP 595c) circa 1180]
2. presbiter hic ille, set dicere nolo capatus; / immo captatus cetera ferre pudet Poetic. [DMLBS GARL. (Epith. IX 54 (56)) post 1230]
3. neque aliquis debet fratrum nostrorum in claustro aut in ecclesia capatus videri ... nisi solus abbas; et hoc de novo, a tempore videlicet ... abbatis R. de Berkyng', qui unus ex baronibus erat de Scaccario et hac tunc de causa locis prelibatis capatus primum incedebat Ecclesiastic/Regula. [DMLBS Cust. Westm. (167) circa 1266]
4. Capped wiþ clergie, to conspire wronge. [MED PPl.C ((Lond-U V.88) 12.80) ante 1425]
L; Primarily N/A.
Sex: Male    Use: Ecclesiastical    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: Yes
Body Parts: Head.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Cf. the noun cape (cap, cappa, etc.).
WF: Derivation
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