corposant
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of corposant
C17: from Portuguese corpo-santo, literally: holy body, from Latin corpus sanctum
Example Sentences
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I looked, and saw a corposant, as it is called at sea,—a St. Elmo's fire,—burning at the end of the crossjack-yard.
From Stories by English Authors: the Sea by Various
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
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
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)
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)
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