ope

[ohp]

Origin

adjective, verb (used with object), verb (used without object), oped, op·ing. Literary.

open.

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ope (əʊp)

—vb, —*adj*
	an archaic or poetic word for open

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Word Origin & History

ope

short for open (q.v.), mid-13c.; originally as awake is from awaken, etc.

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"For rhetoric, he could not ope
His mouth, but out there flew a trope;
And when he happen'd to break off
I' th' middle of his speech, or cough,
H' had hard words ready to show why,
And tell what rules he did it by;"

-Samuel Butler