† Culp(e. World English Historical Dictionary

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Obs. Also 4–5 cope, coupe, 5–6 coulpe. [a. OF. coulpe (colpe, culpe, coupe, cope), f. L. culpa fault, blame.

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  After the Fr. word had regularly become coupe, the l was restored from Latin, and was at length pronounced.]

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  Guilt, sin, fault, blame.

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[1292.  Britton, I. xxix. § 3. Par sa coupe ou par sa negligence.]

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1377.  Langl., P. Pl., B. V. 305. And kaires hym to-kirke-ward his coupe to schewe.

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c. 1386.  Chaucer, Pars. T., ¶ 261. Baptisme … which bynymeþ vs þe culpe.

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1483.  Caxton, G. de la Tour, I vj. Sayeng that she had no culpe of this dede. Ibid. (c. 1489), Blanchardyn, xxii. 74. Thourgh the coulpe of a knyght.

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1513.  Hen. VIII., in Strype, Eccl. Mem., I. App. iii. 6. We do not impute the culp and blame thereof in any person.

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1549.  Compl. Scot., xvii. 155. The coulpe of our synnis.

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1601.  Q. Eliz., in Harl. Misc. (Malh.), II. 354. I hope God will not lay their culps to my charge.

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