CORPORALE
CORPORAL, CORPORALE noun A fine linen cloth, used to cover the sacred elements in the eucharist or in which the sacrament is put.Corporal oath, a solemn oath, so called from the...
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CORPORALITY
CORPORALITY, noun The state of being a body or embodied; opposed to spirituality.If this light hath any corporality it is most subtile and pure.
CORPORALLY
CORPORALLY, adverb Bodily; in or with the body; as, to be corporally present.
CORPORALSHIP
CORPORALSHIP, noun [from corporal.] A corporals command in a Russian company, or a division of twenty-three men.Each squadron consists of two companies, and each of these, of th...
CORPORAS
CORPORAS, noun The old name of the corporal or communion cloth.
CORPORATE
CORPORATE, adjective [Latin, to be shaped into a body, body.]1. United in a body, or community, as a number of individuals, who are empowered to transact business as an individu...
CORPORATENESS
CORPORATENESS, noun The state of a corporate body.
CORPORATION
CORPORATION, noun A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual. Co...
CORPORATOR
CORPORATOR, noun The member of a corporation.
CORPORATURE
CORPORATURE, noun The state of being embodied. [Not in use.]
CORPOREAL
CORPOREAL, CORPOREOUS, adjective Having a body; consisting of a material body; material; opposed to spiritual or immaterial; as our corporeal frame; corporeal substance.
CORPOREALIST
CORPOREALIST, noun One who denies the existence of spiritual substances.
CORPOREALLY
CORPOREALLY, adverb In body; in a bodily form or manner.
CORPOREITY
CORPOREITY, noun The state of having a body, or of being embodied; materiality.The one attributed corporeity to God.
CORPOREOUS
CORPOREAL, CORPOREOUS adjective Having a body; consisting of a material body; material; opposed to spiritual or immaterial; as our corporeal frame; corporeal substance.
CORPORIFY
CORPORIFY, verb transitive To embody; to form into a body.
CORPOSANT
CORPOSANT, noun A name given by seamen to a luminous appearance often beheld, in dark tempestuous nights, about the decks and rigging of a ship, but particularly at the masthead...
CORPS
CORPS, noun [Latin, body. It is pronounced kore, and is an ill word in English.1. In military language, a body of troops; any division of an army; as a corps de reserve.2. A bod...
CORPSE
CORPSE, noun [Latin, a body.] The dead body of a human being.
CORPULENCE
CORPULENCE, CORPULENCY, noun [Latin, body.]
CORPULENCY
CORPULENCE, CORPULENCY noun [Latin, body.]1. Fleshiness; excessive fatness; a state of being loaded with flesh; as the body of a human being.2. Spissitude; grossness of matter; ...
CORPULENT
CORPULENT, adjective Fleshy; having a great or excessive quantity of fat or flesh, in proportion to the frame of the body; as a corpulent child.Corpus Christi. [Body of Christ.]...
CORPUSCLE
CORPUSCLE, noun [Latin, body.] A minute particle, or physical atom; corpuscles are the very small bodies which compose large bodies, not the elementary principles of matter, but...
CORPUSCULAR
CORPUSCULAR, adjective Relating to corpuscles, or small particles, supposed to be the constituent materials of all large bodies. The corpuscular philosophy attempts to account f...
CORPUSCULARIAN
CORPUSCULARIAN, adjective Corpuscular, as above.CORPUSCULARIAN, noun An advocate for the corpuscular philosophy.
CORRADIATION
CORRADIATION, noun [Latin See Ray.] A conjunction of rays in one point.
CORRECT
CORRECT, adjective [Latin, to set right; right, straight. See Right.] Literally, set right, or made straight. Hence, right; conformable to truth, rectitude or propriety, or conf...