offcap

verb

verb

Etymology From off- + cap.

Obsolete, Rare To take off the cap by way of obeisance or salutation.

Three Great-ones of the Cittie, (In perſonall ſuite to make me his Lieutenant) Off-capt to himc. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

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