offcap

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verb

To take off the cap by way of obeisance or salutation.

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Meanings

verboffcap (third-person singular simple present offcaps, present participle offcapping, simple past and past participle offcapped)

present singular third person offcaps · participle present offcapping · participle past offcapped · past offcapped · alternative off-cap

  1. obsoleterareTo take off the cap by way of obeisance or salutation.

    Three Great-ones of the Cittie, (In perſonall ſuite to make me his Lieutenant) Off-capt to him

    c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]

Origin

From off- + cap.

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Chicago

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