Copula [noun]

Loquuntur moralistae, ut dixi, de copula carnali quatenus copula est sine respectu ad possibilitatem generandi.

How to beget a male or female child; and of the Embryo and perfect Birth; and the fittest time for the copula.

The moment we use the copula, the moment we express subjective inclusions, poetry evaporates.

Antisthenes 222probably considered that the copula implied identity between the predicate and the subject.

The first division of propositions is into Affirmative and Negative, the copula in the latter being is not.

What looks at first, therefore, like a copula turns out to be merely an impersonal intransitive verb.

The copula is presumed to have reference to the promise, but evidence may be adduced to show that such was not the case.

Numberless fallacies, as we are often truly told, have originated in a confusion of the 'copula,' and the 'verb of existence.'

If it must not be left out altogether, and we cannot put it with the copula, we have a choice between the two terms.

In the first series of propositions the word 'is' is really the copula; in the second, the verb of existence.