Definition of "cope" []

• To contend or strive, especially on even terms or with success: coping with child rearing and a full-time job. (verb-intransitive)
• To contend with difficulties and act to overcome them: "Facing unprecedented problems, the Federal Reserve of the early 1930s couldn't cope” ( Robert J. Samuelson). (verb-intransitive)
• A long ecclesiastical vestment worn over an alb or surplice. (noun)
• A covering resembling a cloak or mantle. (noun)
• A coping. (noun)

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• "The Assistant priest in cope is beside him) (Note the stripped altar and the smaller cross upon the altar; likewise, there is no canopy above the papal throne)"
• "I think an inability to cope is a symptom, and poverty via bad government is the problem."
• "Fortescue himself (in cope) with some of his servers"