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Webster 1913 Edition


Corporeal

Cor-po′re-al

(kôr-pō′rē̍-al)
,
Adj.
[L.
corporeus
, fr.
corpus
body.]
Having a body; consisting of, or pertaining to, a material body or substance; material; – opposed to
spiritual
or
immaterial
.
His omnipotence
That to
corporeal
substance could add
Speed almost spiritual.
Milton.
Syn. – Corporal; bodily. See
Corporal
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Corporeal

CORPOREAL

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

Definition 2024


corporeal

corporeal

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Adjective

corporeal (comparative more corporeal, superlative most corporeal)

  1. Material; tangible; physical.
    His omnipotence That to corporeal substance could add Speed almost spiritual. - Milton
  2. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) Of or pertaining to the body; bodily.
    • 2000, Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin:
      She is always diagnosing me. My corporeal health is of almost as much interest to her as my spiritual health: she is especially proprietary about my bowels.
  3. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (archaic) Corporal.

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