A small wood, consisting of underwood, which may be cut at twelve or fifteen years' growth for fuel. … [Read more...] about COPPICE, OR COPSE
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CO-RESPONDENT
A person summoned to answer a bill, petition, or libel, together with another respondent. Now chiefly used to designate the person charged with adultery with the respondent in a suit for divorce for that cause, and joined as a defendant with such party. Lowe v. Bennett, 27 Misc. Rep. 356, 58 N. Y. Supp. 88. … [Read more...] about CO-RESPONDENT
COPROLALIA
In medical jurisprudence. A disposition or habit of using obscene language, developing unexpectedly in the particular individual or contrary to his previous history and habits, recognized as a sign of insanity or of aphasia. … [Read more...] about COPROLALIA
CORIUM FORISFACERE
To forfeit one's skin, applied to a person condemned to be whipped ; anciently the punishment of a servant. Corium perdere, the same. Corium redimere, to compound for a whipping. Wharton. … [Read more...] about CORIUM FORISFACERE
COPULA
The corporal consummation of marriage. Copula, (in logic,) the link between subject and predicate contained in the verb. Copulatio cerborum indicat acceptationem in codem sensu. Coupling of words together shows that they are to be understood in the same sense. 4 Bacon's Works, p. 26; Broom, Max. 588. … [Read more...] about COPULA