Definition of "copulae" []

• Plural form of copula. (noun)

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• "On Sellars 'view, such special copulae and metalinguistic indicators initially arise in response to the need to abstract from our domestic sign designs in order to classify items of different languages on the basis of such functional criteria."
• "Harvey's rendering is: "For, say they, Christ taught them the nature of their copulae, (namely,) that being cognisant of their (limited) perception of the Unbegotten they needed no higher knowledge, and that He enounced," etc. the words seem scarcely capable of yielding this sense: we have followed the interpretation of Billius."
• "Hancintimam coniundioncm cuidenti ex - emplo copulae coniugalis, qua duo fiunt quafivnacaro,"