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Webster 1913 Edition

(-p?-lent)

Adj.

[L.

corpulentus

, fr.

corpus

: cf. F.

corpulent

. See

Very fat; obese.

Syn. – Stout; fleshy; bulky; obese. See

Adj.

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.] A festival of the church of England, kept on the next Thursday after Trinity-Sunday, in honor of the Eucharist.