corposant
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of corposant
C17: from Portuguese corpo-santo, literally: holy body, from Latin corpus sanctum
Example Sentences
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There was fever between the decks; there was fever in black hearts; of dark nights a corposant burned now at this masthead, now at that.
From Sir Mortimer by Johnston, Mary
His vivid sense of beauty even hovers sometimes like a corposant over the somewhat stiff lines of his Latin prose.
From Among My Books Second Series by Lowell, James Russell
I had seen a ship, and there she was to leeward of us, with the corposant clinging to one of her spars.
From The Log of a Privateersman by Rainey, W. (William)
Everybody knows nowadays that a corposant is nothing whatever but an electrical phenomenon, and therefore merely an indication that the atmosphere is surcharged with electricity.
From The Log of a Privateersman by Rainey, W. (William)
They had played around him as the corposant flickers around the mast-head of a ship....
From The Wind Bloweth by Donn-Byrne, Brian Oswald
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