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Definition of Copy out
1. Verb. Copy very carefully and as accurately as possible.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Copy Out
Literary usage of Copy out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes by Samuel Austin Allibone (1875)
"... of another kind, To copy out ideas in the mind ; DRYDEN. Words are the paint
by which their thoughts are shown, And nature is their object to be drawn. ..."
2. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers (1853)
"To this (o' the height of all the wheel) below; That mightiest monarchs by this
shaded book May copy out their proudest, richest look. ..."
3. New English and Italian Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary by John Millhouse, Ferdinando Bracciforti (1889)
"Previous to entering upon the study of the following pages, the student will do
well to copy out and commit to memory at least one example of each of the ..."
4. Records of the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, in New England by Rhode Island, John Russell Bartlett (1859)
"... the several towns, under the seal of the colony ; and to have six shillings
for each copy out of the general treasury ; and this Assembly is dissolved. ..."
5. Step-by-Step Programming with Base SAS(R) Software by SAS Institute (2001)
"The procedure input library is PRECIP, which was specified in the previous PROC
DATASETS statement. copy out=weather; copy in=storm out=weather; ..."
6. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1847)
"as soon as he will have had leisure to copy out his notes. In the mean time,
extracts from his letters more especially bearing upon his collections for ..."
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