corporally

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

corporal +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

corporally (comparative more corporally, superlative most corporally)

  1. In or with the body; bodily.
    to be corporally present
    • a. 1714, John Sharp, a sermon on John vi.53
      although Christ be not corporally in the outward visible signs, yet he is corporally in the persons that duly receive them

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for corporally”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)