corporeal
- of the nature of the physical body; bodily.
- material; tangible: corporeal property.
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material, carnal, corporal, fleshly, fleshy, human, mortal, objective, phenomenal, sensible, substantial, tangible, somatic, anatomicalExamples from the Web for corporeal
Contemporary Examples of corporeal
To great effect, Cunningham plays with the correspondence between the corporeal and the emotional.
Many of the scenes deal with the grim obsessions of old age: sexual futility, corporeal decrepitude, and death.
Historical Examples of corporeal
Tertullian believes that the soul is corporeal, and that it has a certain figure.
The Phantom WorldAugustin Calmet
The spirit ennobled can bid defiance to any amount of corporeal pain.
Henry IV, Makers of HistoryJohn S. C. Abbott
Corporal punishment; corporeal or material form or substance.
The VerbalistThomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
There is a fable comparing the corporeal body to the body politic.
Watch Yourself Go ByAl. G. Field
Besides, if he were corporeal, he could not create bodies any more than we can.
A History of Mediaeval Jewish PhilosophyIsaac Husik
corporeal
- of the nature of the physical body; not spiritual
- of a material nature; physical
Word Origin for corporeal
Word Origin and History for corporeal
early 15c., with adjectival suffix -al (1) + Latin corporeus "of the nature of a body," from corpus "body" (living or dead), from PIE *kwrpes, from root *kwrep- "body, form, appearance," probably from a verbal root meaning "to appear" (cf. Sanskrit krp- "form, body," Avestan kerefsh "form, body," Old English hrif "belly," Old High German href "womb, belly, abdomen").
corporeal
(kôr-pôr′ē-əl)- Of, relating to, or characteristic of the body.