Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for COP'Y
COP'Y, v.i.
To imitate or endeavor to be like; to do any thing in imitation of something else. A painter copies from the life. An obedient child copies after his parent. They never fail, when they copy, to follow the bad as well as the good. – Dryden.
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