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† ˈcatadupe Obs.
Also 7 -doup, -dupa.
[a. F. catadoupe, catadupe, ad. L. catadūpa (pl.), ad. Gr. κατάδουποι (pl.) the cataracts of the Nile, f. κατά down + δοῦπος thud, heavy sound of falling, δουπέ-ειν to sound heavy, fall with a thud. (But see Liddell and Scott.)]
1. A cataract or waterfall, orig. those of the Nile.
1596Lodge Wit's Miserie (N.) Sien of my science in the catadupe of my knowledge, I nourish the crocodile of thy conceit. 1662Fuller Worthies iii. 142 In the River Caun in this County, there be two Catadupæ or Waterfalls. 1681J. Chetham Angler's Vade-m. ii. §1 (1689) 111 At Kilgarran upon the Tivy..is a Catadoup, or very high Cataract. 1708Motteux Rabelais iv. xxxiv, The Catadupes of the Nile in Ethiopia. 1755J. Ismay in Yorksh. N. & Q. I. 206 The dams across the river are in the nature of Cataracts, and are a sort of catadupes.
2. pl. [L. Catadūpi.] The dwellers by the cataracts of the Nile.
1607Brewer Lingua iii. vii. (R.) The Egyptian Catadupes never heard the roaring of the fall of Nilus because the noise was so familiar unto them. |