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Copula   Listen
noun
Copula  n.  
1.
(Logic & Gram.) The word which unites the subject and predicate.
2.
(Mus.) The stop which connects the manuals, or the manuals with the pedals; called also coupler.





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"Copula" Quotes from Famous Books



... centre, and took their stand in the sun, immediately they saw the whole system in its true light, and the former station remaining—but remaining as a part of the prospect. I wish, in short, to connect a moral copula, natural history with political history; or, in other words, to make history scientific, and science historical:—to take from history its accidentality, and from ...
— Famous Reviews • Editor: R. Brimley Johnson
... generalize, the powers acting in nature, as into intellectual, vital, chemical, mechanical; but it holds equally true of the degrees, or species of each of these genera relatively to each other: as in the decomposition of the alkalies by heat, or the galvanic spark. Like the combining power of Life, the copula here resists for awhile the attempts to dissolve it, and then yields, ...
— Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. • Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Words linked to "Copula" :   copular, verb, linking verb, copulative


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