Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COR'PO-RAL-LY, adv.

Bodily; in or with the body; as, to be corporally present.

COR'PO-RAL-SHIP, n. [from corporal.]

A corporal's command in a Russian company, or a division of twenty-three men. Each squadron consists of two companies, and each of these, of three corporalships or sixty-nine men who come in the front. – Tooke.

COR'PO-RAS, n.

The old name of the corporal or communion cloth.

COR'PO-RATE, a. [L. corporatus, from corporor, to be shaped into a body, from corpus, body.]

1. United in a body, or community, as a number of individuals, who are empowered to transact business as an individual; formed into a body; as, a corporate assembly, or society; a corporate town. – Swift.
2. United; general; collectively one. They answer in a corporate voice. – Shak.

COR'PO-RATE-LY, adv.

In a corporate capacity.

COR'PO-RATE-NESS, n.

The state of a corporate body. – Dict.

COR-PO-RA'TION, n.

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. Corporations are aggregate or sole. Corporations aggregate consist of two or more persons united in a society, which is preserved by a succession of members, either for ever, or till the corporation is dissolved by the power that formed it, by the death of all its members, by surrender of its charter or franchises, or by forfeiture. Such corporations are the mayor and aldermen of cities, the head and fellows of a college, the dean and chapter of a cathedral church, the stockholders of a bank or insurance company, &c. A corporation sole consists of one person only and his successors, as a king or a bishop. – Blackstone.

COR'PO-RA-TOR, n.

The member of a corporation. – Sergeant.

COR'PO-RA-TURE, n.

The state of being embodied. [Not in use.] More.

COR-PO'RE-AL, or COR-PO'RE-OUS, a.

Having a body; consisting of a material body; material; opposed to spiritual or immaterial; as, our corporeal frame; corporeal substance.

COR-PO'RE-AL-IST, n.

One who denies the existence of spiritual substances.

COR-PO-RE-AL'I-TY, n.

The state of being corporeal.

COR-PO'RE-AL-LY, adv.

In body; in a bodily form or manner. – Richardson.

COR-PO-RE'I-TY, n.

The state of having a body, or of being embodied; materiality. The one attributed corporeity to God. – Stillingfleet.

COR-PO'RI-FY, v.t.

To embody; to form into a body. [Not used.] Boyle.

COR'PO-SANT, n. [Sp. cuerpo santo, holy body.]

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 mast-heads and yard-arms, supposed to be electrical. – Mar. Dict.

CORPS, n. [Fr. from L. corpus, 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 body, in contempt, as used by Milton and Dryden, but probably pronounced in the English manner, as corpse.
3. A carcass; a dead body. [See Corpse.] – Shak.
4. In architecture, any part that projects beyond a wall, serving as the ground of some decoration. – Encyc.

CORPS-DIPLOMATIQUE, n. [Core diplomateek. Fr.]

The body of ministers or diplomatic characters.

CORPSE, n. [corps; L. corpus, a body; Ir. corp; W. corv; Arm. corf; It. corpo; Sp. cuerpo.]

The dead body of a human being. – Addison.

COR'PU-LENCE, or COR'PU-LEN-CY, n. [L. corpulentia, from corpus, a body.]

1. Fleshiness; excessive fatness; a state of being loaded with flesh; as the body of a human being. Arbuthnot.
2. Spissitude; grossness of matter; as, corpulence of water. [Little used.] Ray.

COR'PU-LENT, a.

Fleshy; having a great or excessive quantity of fat or flesh, in proportion to the frame of the body; as, a corpulent child.

COR'PU-LENT-LY, adv.

In a corpulent manner.

CORPUS-CHRISTI, n. [Corpus Christi. Body of Christ.]

A festival of the Church of Rome, kept on the next Thursday after Trinity-Sunday in honor of the Eucharist. – Encyc.

COR'PUS-CLE, n. [L. corpisculum, dim. of corpus, body.]

A minute particle, or physical atom; corpuscles are the very small bodies which compose large bodies, not the elementary principles of matter, but such small particles, simple or compound, as are not dissolved or dissipated by ordinary heat. It will add much to our satisfaction, if those corpuscles can be discovered by microscopes. – Newton.

COR-PUS'CU-LAR, a.

Relating to corpuscles, or small particles, supposed to be the constituent materials of all large bodies. The corpuscular philosophy attempts to account for the phenomena of nature, by the motion, figure, rest, position, &c., of the minute particles of matter. – Encyc.