v. trans. Obs. rare1. Meaning uncertain: Johnson suggests ‘perhaps to strip off the hood,’ f. CAPOUCHE; it might also be a sportive use of CABOCHE v.

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1664.  Butler, Hud., I. II. 529. We still have … Capoched [ed. 1689 has o’er-reach’d] your Rabbins of the Synod And snapt their Canons with a Why-not.

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