Corpus Christi

¹ American  

[kawr-puhs kris-tee, -tahy] / ˈkɔr pəs ˈkrɪs ti, -taɪ /

noun

Roman Catholic Church.

1. a festival in honor of the Eucharist, celebrated on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday.

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Corpus Christi ² American  

[kawr-puhs kris-tee] / ˈkɔr pəs ˈkrɪs ti /

noun

1. a seaport in S Texas.

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Corpus Christi ¹ British  

/ ˈkrɪstɪ /

noun

1. RC Church a festival in honour of the Eucharist, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday

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Corpus Christi ² British  

/ ˈkrɪstɪ /

noun

1. a port in S Texas, on Corpus Christi Bay , an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico. Pop: 279 208 (2003 est)

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Etymology

Origin of Corpus Christi

1325–75; Middle English < Medieval Latin: literally, body of Christ

Example Sentences

Of it there still remain a book of the gospels in the Bodleian library, and another in that of Corpus-Christi in Cambridge.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban

Since that Corpus-Christi Day, Brunswick has come, and the Emigrants, and La Vendee, and eighteen months of Time: to all flourishing, especially to brown-leaved flourishing, there comes, were it never so slowly, an end.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

Wood says, that he was a student in Corpus-Christi College, Oxon; but in what country he was born, or of what family descended, is no where fixed.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume I. by Cibber, Theophilus

By the order of pope Urban IV., he compiled the office of the blessed sacrament, which the church uses to this day, on the feast and during the Octave of Corpus-Christi.

From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Butler, Alban

We observe finally that their Majesties, Heaven willing, will assist at Corpus-Christi Day, this blessed Summer Solstice, in Assumption Church, here at Paris, to the joy of all the world.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas