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Webster 1913 Edition

Corpulency

{

Cor′pu-lence

(k?r′p?-lens)

,

Cor′pu-len-cy

(k?r′p?-len-s?)

, }

Noun.

[L.

corpulentia

: cf. F.

corpulence

.]

1.

Excessive fatness; fleshiness; obesity.

2.

Thickness; density; compactness.

[Obs.]

The heaviness and

corpulency

of water requiring a great force to divide it.

Ray.

Webster 1828 Edition

Corpulency

CORPULENCE

, CORPULENCY,

Noun.

[L., body.]

1.

Fleshiness; excessive fatness; a state of being loaded with flesh; as the body of a human being.

2.

Spissitude; grossness of matter; as corpulence of water. [Little used.]

Definition 2024

corpulency

corpulency

English

Noun

corpulency ‎(countable and uncountable, plural corpulencies)

Alternative form of corpulence
- Ray
  The heaviness and corpulency of water requiring a great force to divide it.
- 1907, Arthur Conan Doyle, Through the Magic Door, ch. 3,
  His person was large, robust, I may say approaching to the gigantic, and grown unwieldy from corpulency.
- 1912, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, "The Priest of Spring," in A Miscellany of Men,
  No man, however indulgent (as I am) to corpulency, ever worshipped a man as round as the sun or a woman as round as the moon.