corporeal

When Biles spoke about righting her emotional gyroscope as well as her corporeal gyroscope, it hit deep for so many of us.
Simone Biles and Why We All Get the 'Twisties' (Even If We Can't Fly)|Susanna Schrobsdorff|August 2, 2021|Time
She writes about the sick body, imprisoned bodies, bodies that protest, the sexual body, bodies that have experienced acts of violence — illuminating the strengths and the weaknesses of the corporeal form.
Olivia Laing’s ‘Everybody’ explores the power and vulnerabilities of the human body|Michele Filgate|May 7, 2021|Washington Post
It’s an explicitly corporeal moment, rendered in a few supple twists of wire.
In the galleries: Acronyms as content encode a powerful commentary|Mark Jenkins|April 2, 2021|Washington Post
Fortunately, McKim’s film is heavy with the almost corporeal substance of its subject.
‘Wojnarowicz’ burns with a queer icon’s brilliant fury|John Paul King|March 24, 2021|Washington Blade

Without any objective gauge of your corporeal disrepair, it’s easy to deceive oneself.
After the Pandemic: Are You Ready for the Old Normal?|Susanna Schrobsdorff|March 7, 2021|Time
To great effect, Cunningham plays with the correspondence between the corporeal and the emotional.
Great New Reads|The Daily Beast|October 23, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Many of the scenes deal with the grim obsessions of old age: sexual futility, corporeal decrepitude, and death.
The Nabokov Mess|Nathaniel Rich|November 22, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Just corporeal enough to attest humanity, yet sufficiently transparent to let the celestial origin shine through.
Pearls of Thought|Maturin M. Ballou
The inner workings of their corporeal mechanism is no mystery for him.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z|Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois Christophe
He often saw the Holy Virgin in corporeal presence, and heard her speech and savoured the divine odours of her glorified body.
The Merrie Tales Of Jacques Tournebroche|Anatole France
Those only who are freed from material bonds can be conscious of their extra-corporeal existence and immortality.
Urania|Camille Flammarion
An angel in theory, the corporeal woman is soundly rated if dinner is late, or a room unswept.
Alone|Marion Harland

British Dictionary definitions for corporeal

corporeal

/ (kɔːˈpɔːrɪəl) /

adjective

of the nature of the physical body; not spiritual

of a material nature; physical

Derived forms of corporeal

corporeality or corporealness, nouncorporeally, adverb

Word Origin for corporeal

C17: from Latin corporeus, from corpus body

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corporeal

[ kôr-pôr′ē-əl ]

adj.

Of, relating to, or characteristic of the body.

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