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n. Star name (no data). (Kuhelani.)

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kāpae

/ kā.pae / Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

1. vt., To set aside, turn aside, deviate from, eliminate, discard, remove, lay aside, delete, omit, spare, stow away, cancel, be perverted from; to disqualify, suspend.

  • Examples:
    • Hiki ʻole ke kāpae, unavoidable.
    • Kāpae ʻia, disqualified.
    • E kāpae aʻe ʻoe i kou manaʻo huhū, put away your angry thoughts.
    • Ua kāpae ʻoia i ka ʻōlelo a ka makua, he disobeyed his parent's teaching.
    • ʻAʻole e kāpae nei lāʻau iāʻoe (FS 95), this club will not spare you.
    • Kāpae i ka ihe, set the spear down [do not fight any more, declare a truce]; throw a spear so that it will not strike a target, especially if the warrior wants to spare his foe's life. See Malo 203.
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2. (Cap.) n., Name of a trade wind at Hāna, Maui, and at Puna, Hawaiʻi.

  • References:
    • PH 202.

Nā LepiliTags: winds Maui Hawaiʻi

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v. To pervert; to turn aside; to make crooked morally, i.e., to turn aside from moral rectitude. 1 Nal. 9:6.

2. To turn aside from the direct road in traveling. Kanl. 2:27.

3. To turn aside from following one. 2 Sam. 2:19.

4. To turn aside from obedience to law. Kanl. 9:12.

5. To turn a thing from its designed use or object. NOTE.—It was often applied when a commander in battle ordered a soldier to throw a spear at one of the opposite party who was the soldier's friend; the soldier would throw his spear under his arm or some place where it would do no hurt, and yet would pretend to obey; he would thus be said to kapae the spear. The word was much used formerly as applied to the management of a chief's property, a species of embezzling.

6. To change the meaning of a word from its common acceptation.

7. To pretend not to understand what is said.

8. To set aside, as an officer or ruler; to dethrone. Oih. 13:2. To suspend from the church.

9. Hoo. To cause to turn aside, &c.

s., The act of turning aside anything from its proper use, or from moral rectitude.

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kapae

/ kā'-pā'e / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

n., The act of turning; aside anything from its proper use, or from moral rectitude.

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kapae

/ kā'-pā'e / Haw to Eng, Parker (1922),

1. v., To pervert; to turn aside; to turn aside from moral rectitude.

2. v., To turn aside from the direct road in traveling. To turn aside from following a person.

4. v., To turn aside from obedience to law.

5. v., To turn a thing from its designed use or object. (When a commander in battle ordered a soldier to throw a spear at an opponent who was in reality the soldier's friend, the soldier would throw his spear where it would do no injury, and yet he would pretend to obey. He would thus be said to kapae the spear. The word was much used formerly as applied to the mismanagement of a chief's property, to designate a kind of embezzling.

6. v., To misappropriate.

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To turn a thing from its designed use. This word was formerly used as applied to the management of a chiefʻs property, a species of embezzling. It was also applied when a commander ordered a soldier to throw a spear at a friend. The soldier would

To pervert; to turn aside from moral rectitude. (1 Nal. 9:6.) To turn aside from obedience to law. (Kanl. 9:12.)

To pervert; to turn aside from moral rectitude; to turn a thing from its intended use or object; to pretend not to understand what is said. (1 Nal. 9:6.)

to turn aside; pervert; stow away.

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