Meaning of gaincope | Babel Free

Definitions

To catch up with, intercept, or encounter another person by taking a short-cut.

obsolete, transitive

Examples

“These came forth later than the rest⟳ but, coasting thwart a hill, They did gaincope him as he came and held their master still Until that all the rest⟳ came in and fastened on him too.”

“[…] and to a companie of my malcontent companions will discouer if it please⟳ them, how to be gainfull and gain-coping nauigators if they will insist in my directions.”

“And sooth to say⟳, I thinke euery man to bee of my minde, that when they see⟳ a fellow leape from the subiect he is handling, to disswade them by stale arguments from the thing they already detest, they should skip⟳ it ouer, and neuer reade it, gainecope him at the next turning point⟳ to his text.”

“Some indeed there have⟳ been, of a more heroical strain⟳, who striving to gaincope these ambages, by venturing on a new discovery, have⟳ made their voyage in half the time.”

“[…] as he was upon his Flight across a steep Bottom, Gratus gain-coped him, […]”

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