corporeal
English
Etymology
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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin corporeus, from corpus (“body”); compare corporal.
Pronunciation
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Adjective
corporeal (comparative more corporeal, superlative most corporeal)
- Material; tangible; physical.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- His omnipotence That to corporeal substance could add Speed almost spiritual.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost
- (archaic) Pertaining to the body; bodily; corporal.
- 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.
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Translations
bodily — see bodily