Obs. [app. a. OF. cape-r to seize, take, cf. cape ‘bref de prise de corps’ (Godef.): see CAPE sb.4 But cf. also CAPIAS, the name of a writ; and CAPE v.2, a. Du. kapen to take.]

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  1.  trans. To arrest.

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1589.  R. Harvey, Pl. Perc., 11. Cap him sirra, if he pay it not.

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1611.  Beaum. & Fl., Knt. Burn. Pestle, III. (1613), F 3. Twelue shillings you must pay, or I must cap you.

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  2.  ‘To seize by violence, to lay hold of what is not one’s own’ (Jamieson). Mod. Sc.

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  Cap v.3 Obs. Sc. form of CAPE v.

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