recopyv.
/riːˈkɒpi/, U.S. /riˈkɑpi/ transitive. To copy again.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > imitation > imitate [verb (transitive)] > repeat in a copy
counterfeit1362
to take out1530
take1538
reduplicate1570
imitate1590
counter-make1595
ingeminate1625
replicate1661
recopy1684
takea1715
reproduce1838
duplicate1860
facsimile1862
carbon copy1914
1684 J. Dryden in tr. L. Maimbourg Hist. League Postscr. 29 This was first copied by the Rebels in Forty One, and since recopyed within these late years by some of those who are lately dead.
a1779 J. Tweddell Rem. (1798) xxxix. 200 If I have time to recopy, also, my remarks upon the Crimea,..I will send one copy home.
1857 A. Trollope Barchester Towers xxxii The epistle to Mr. Towers was studied, and recopied, and elaborated.
1895 Forum (N.Y.) Nov. 354 Paul Verlaine recopied here his Saturnian poems on the paper of the administration.
1924 H. L. Mencken Let. 20 June in H. L. Mencken & S. Haardt Mencken & Sara (1987) 150 Put a blank sheet of paper behind the last page, to protect the MS. If it gets dog-eared, recopy the first page.
1979 B. Malamud Dubin's Lives vii. 250 I've got only one paragraph to recopy.
2004 Slavic Rev. 63 800 The marked passages were recopied into a new document.
Derivatives
reˈcopying n.
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1710 Ld. Shaftesbury Soliloquy 146 I have a very fair Hand offer'd, which may save me the trouble of re-copying.
1820 Ld. Byron Let. 9 Apr. (1977) VII. 73 You forget that you keep me in hot water till I know whether they are arrived—or, if I must have the bore of recopying.
1928 Times 20 Nov. 22/2 There was always the copying and recopying of his [sc. Tolstoy's] manuscripts.
2004 H. Cooper Eng. Romance in Time 4 Successive recopyings of a single text record a process of shifting interpretations and significances.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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