corpus vile
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of corpus vile
literally: worthless body
Example Sentences
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Even the student body was regarded not as boys and girls to be taught, but as a corpus vile, a collection of human guinea pigs tolerated for experimental purposes.
From Time Magazine Archive
No good book ought ever to be considered a mere corpus vile for rhetorical praxis.
From College Teaching Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College by Klapper, Paul
Among induced apparitions may be reckoned the materialized forms of spiritual s�ances, which have a material basis of veils, false moustaches, wigs and the corpus vile of the medium.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
During his minority he has lain entirely at their mercy: has been their butt, their martyr, their drudge, their corpus vile.
From Pagan Papers by Grahame, Kenneth
Fiat experimentum in corpore vili, he would have said had he been conversant with the Classics, without much consideration for the corpus vile.
From Mr. Meeson's Will by Haggard, Henry Rider
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