corporization

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corporization (plural corporizations)

  1. Alternative spelling of corporisation
    • 1812. William Hendry Stowell. The Eclectic review, Volume 8, Part 2, page 973:[1]
      Mercury in conjunction with Venus and the earth becomes, if we may credit the report of M. de Hagen, the principle of corporization; the Earth per se, is the principle of liberty; and Venus the principle of perfection.... for perhaps it may be found that all the appearances of comets have been subsequent to the conjunction of the 'principles of corporization,' and consequent on the efflux thence emanating.
    • 1855. The Westminster review, Volume 64, page 539:
      ..to the question, whether at the human death there is an end of the corporization of the soul, whether it does lose all hold upon matter and body...