coupable (s.xii2/4)
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coupable (s.xii2/4)

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[ FEW: 2/ii,1498a culpabilis; Gdf: ∅; GdfC: 9,219a coupable; TL:  coupable 2; DEAF:  coupable; DMF:  coupable; TLF:  coupable; OED:  culpable adj. and n.; MED:  coupable adj and n.; DMLBS: 529b culpabilis ]
copable,  coulpable,  culpable,  cupable,  cuppable;  coupabil,  cupabel;  coupeable,  coepaple  ii 9,  coulpale  ii 64,  coupaubles  114.16,  cupaple  3318  

a.

1guilty: 
( s.xii2/4; MS: c.1200 ) si il est culpables de la felunie [...]  104.XX.9
( s.xii3/3; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  Jo sui copable, par Deu serrai jugee  562
( 1283 )  une robberie […] dunt il ne est culpable  25
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  si sunt il coupables de cest crime  29

s.

1guilty person: 
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  k’il ostent de cels la chose entredite e ke il desfacent le cupable  ii 25
( 1300 )  q’il puissent meismes Les amerciementz e quant qe ensi sera levez de tieux copables espleiter […]  340
nient coupable
nientcoupable
nun coupable
nuncoupable
se rendre coupable
1to admit one’s guilt, plead guilty: 
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Cupable se rendi de sa folie, Promist de amender ben sa vie  28.49
( s.xiii2; MS: s.xiii2 )  de tuz les pecchez ke jo ai fet […] me rend copable a Deu  269
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  veraiement se confessa […] e se rendi coupable de quanke il avoit mesfet  51.4
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