corporeal

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
Corporeal build and manner of thought, state organization, government and system of education, all were different.
Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan|Pter Vay
Corporeal, if soul is, body could not possess sensation, iv.
Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4|Plotinos (Plotinus)

And with the mounting ascent I became unconscious of my corporeal vesture.
Unicorns|James Huneker
In the midst of their corporeal and mental labors, their attention was suddenly excited from another painful source.
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The spirit of man, which God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod.
Pearls of Thought|Maturin M. Ballou

British Dictionary definitions for corporeal

corporeal

/ (kɔːˈpɔːrɪəl) /

adjective

of the nature of the physical body; not spiritual

of a material nature; physical

Derived Forms

corporeality or corporealness, nouncorporeally, adverb

Word Origin for corporeal

C17: from Latin corporeus, from corpus body

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corporeal

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corporeal

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