v. t. [ L. accorporare; ad + corpus, corporis, body. ] To unite; to attach; to incorporate. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + corporal. ] Having two bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + corporate. ] (Her.) Double-bodied, as a lion having one head and two bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ L. concorporatus, p. p. of concorporare. ] To unite in one mass or body; to incorporate. [ Archaic. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. United in one body; incorporated. [ Archaic ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. concorporatio. ] Union of things in one mass or body. [ R. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Corporas. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Corrupted fr. F. caporal, It. caporale, fr. capo head, chief, L. caput. See Chief, and cf. Caporal. ] (Mil.) A noncommissioned officer, next below a sergeant. In the United States army he is the lowest noncommissioned officer in a company of infantry. He places and relieves sentinels. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corporal's guard, a detachment such as would be in charge of a corporal for guard duty, etc.; hence, derisively, a very small number of persons. --
Lance corporal, an assistant corporal on private's pay. Farrow. --
Ship's corporal (Naut.), a petty officer who assists the master at arms in his various duties. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. corporalis, fr. corpus body. See Corpse. ] 1. Belonging or relating to the body; bodily. “Past corporal toil.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pillories and other corporal infections. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corporal punishment (law), punishment applied to the body of the offender, including the death penalty, whipping, and imprisonment. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having a body or substance; not spiritual; material. In this sense now usually written corporeal. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

A corporal heaven . . . .where the stare are. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

What seemed corporal melted
As breath into the wind. Shak.

Syn. -- Corporal, Bodily, Corporeal. Bodily is opposed to mental; as, bodily affections. Corporeal refers to the whole physical structure or nature, of the body; as, corporeal substance or frame. Corporal, as now used, refers more to punishment or some infliction; as, corporal punishment. To speak of corporeal punishment is an error. Bodily austerities; the corporeal mold. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ LL. corporale: cf. F. corporal. See Corporal, a. ] A fine linen cloth, on which the sacred elements are consecrated in the eucharist, or with which they are covered; a communion cloth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corporal oath, a solemn oath; -- so called from the fact that it was the ancient usage for the party taking it to touch the corporal, or cloth that covered the consecrated elements. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.: pl. Corporalities [ L. corporalitas: cf. F.corporalit&unr_;. ] 1. The state of being or having a body; bodily existence; corporeality; -- opposed to spirituality. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A confraternity; a guild. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In or with the body; bodily; as, to be corporally present. Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mil.) A corporal's office. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prop. pl. of corporal. ] The corporal, or communion cloth. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. corporatus, p. p. of corporare to shape into a body, fr. corpus body. See Corpse. ] 1. Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Belonging to a corporation or incorporated body. “Corporate property.” Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. United; general; collectively one. [ 1913 Webster ]

They answer in a joint and corporate voice. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corporate member, an actual or voting member of a corporation, as distinguished from an associate or an honorary member; as, a corporate member of the American Board. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To incorporate. [ Obs. ] Stow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become incorporated. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In a corporate capacity; acting as a corporate body. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In, or as regarda, the body. Fabyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Finance) a person who purchases or attempts to purchase a controlling interest in a publicly-traded company against the wishes of the current management. such a buyout is caled a hostile takeover.
Syn. -- buyout specialist, takeover artist. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. corporatio incarnation: cf. F. corporation corporation. ] A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Corporations are aggregate or sole. Corporations aggregate consist of two or more persons united in a society, which is preserved by a succession of members, either forever or till the corporation is dissolved by the power that formed it, by the death of all its members, by surrender of its charter or franchises, or by forfeiture. Such corporations are the mayor and aldermen of cities, the head and fellows of a college, the dean and chapter of a cathedral church, the stockholders of a bank or insurance company, etc. A corporation sole consists of a single person, who is made a body corporate and politic, in order to give him some legal capacities, and especially that of succession, which as a natural person he can not have. Kings, bishops, deans, parsons, and vicars, are in England sole corporations. A fee will not pass to a corporation sole without the word “successors” in the grant. There are instances in the United States of a minister of a parish seized of parsonage lands in the right of his parish, being a corporation sole, as in Massachusetts. Corporations are sometimes classified as public and private; public being convertible with municipal, and private corporations being all corporations not municipal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Close corporation. See under Close. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A member of a corporation, esp. one of the original members. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being embodied; bodily existence. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. corporeus, fr. corpus body. ] Having a body; consisting of, or pertaining to, a material body or substance; material; -- opposed to spiritual or immaterial. [ 1913 Webster ]

His omnipotence
That to corporeal substance could add
Speed almost spiritual. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corporeal property, such as may be seen and handled (as opposed to incorporeal, which can not be seen or handled, and exists only in contemplation). Mozley & W.

Syn. -- Corporal; bodily. See Corporal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Materialism. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who denies the reality of spiritual existences; a materialist. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some corporealists pretended . . . to make a world without a God. Bp. Berkeley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.: pl. Corporealities The state of being corporeal; corporeal existence. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the body; in a bodily form or manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Corporeality; corporeity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. corporeitas: cf. F. corpor&unr_;it&unr_;. ] The state of having a body; the state of being corporeal; materiality. [ 1913 Webster ]

The one attributed corporeity to God. Bp. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those who deny light to be matter, do not therefore deny its corporeity. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. corpus body + -fy: cf. F. corporifier. ] To embody; to form into a body. [ Obs. ] Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. corpo santo holy body. ] St. Elmo's fire. See under Saint. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. sing. & pl. [ F., fr. L. corpus body. See Corpse. ] 1. The human body, whether living or dead. [ Obs. ] See Corpse, 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

By what craft in my corps, it cometh [ commences ] and where. Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A body of men; esp., an organized division of the military establishment; as, the marine corps; the corps of topographical engineers; specifically, an army corps. [ 1913 Webster ]

A corps operating with an army should consist of three divisions of the line, a brigade of artillery, and a regiment of cavalry. Gen. Upton (U. S. Tactics. ) [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A body or code of laws. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The whole corps of the law. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Eccl.) The land with which a prebend or other ecclesiastical office is endowed. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The prebendaries over and above their reserved rents have a corps. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. [ Ger. ] In some countries of Europe, a form of students' social society binding the members to strict adherence to certain student customs and its code of honor; -- Ger. spelling usually korps. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Army corps, or (French)
Corps d'armée /mcol>, a body containing two or more divisions of a large army, organized as a complete army in itself. --
‖Corps de logis ety>[ F., body of the house ], the principal mass of a building, considered apart from its wings. --
Corps diplomatique ety>[ F., diplomatic body ], the body of ministers or envoys accredited to a government. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. cors (sometimes written corps), F. corps, L. corpus; akin to AS. hrif womb. See Midriff, and cf. Corse, Corselet, Corps, Cuerpo. ] 1. A human body in general, whether living or dead; -- sometimes contemptuously. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Formerly written (after the French form) corps. See Corps, n., 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The dead body of a human being; -- used also Fig. [ 1913 Webster ]

He touched the dead corpse of Public Credit, and it sprung upon its feet. D. Webster. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corpse candle. (a) A thick candle formerly used at a lich wake, or the customary watching with a corpse on the night before its interment. (b) A luminous appearance, resembling the flame of a candle, sometimes seen in churchyards and other damp places, superstitiously regarded as portending death. --
Corpse gate, the gate of a burial place through which the dead are carried, often having a covered porch; -- called also lich gate. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (a) In the United States army, the a corps of officers and enlisted men consisting of one band and three battalions of engineers commanded by a brigadier general, whose title is Chief of Engineers. It has charge of the construction of fortifications for land and seacoast defense, the improvement of rivers and harbors, the construction of lighthouses, etc., and, in time of war, supervises the engineering operations of the armies in the field. (b) In the United States navy, a corps made up of the engineers, which was amalgamated with the line by act of March 3, 1899. It consisted of assistant and passed assistant engineers, ranking with ensigns and lieutenants, chief engineers, ranking from lieutenant to captain, and engineer in chief, ranking with commodore and having charge of the Bureau of Steam Engineering. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. [ L. corpulentia: cf. F. corpulence. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Excessive fatness; fleshiness; obesity. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Thickness; density; compactness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The heaviness and corpulency of water requiring a great force to divide it. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. corpulentus, fr. corpus: cf. F. corpulent. See Corpse. ] 1. Very fat; obese. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Solid; gross; opaque. [ Obs. ] Holland.

Syn. -- Stout; fleshy; bulky; obese. See Stout. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a corpulent manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Corpora [ L. ] A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corpus callosum pl. Corpora callosa (-s&unr_;) [ NL., callous body ] (Anat.), the great band of commissural fibers uniting the cerebral hemispheres. See Brain. --
Corpus Christi ety>[ L., body of Christ ] (R. C. Ch.), a festival in honor of the eucharist, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. --
Corpus Christi cloth. Same as Pyx cloth, under Pyx. --
Corpus delicti ety>[ L., the body of the crime ] (Law), the substantial and fundamental fact of the comission of a crime; the proofs essential to establish a crime. --
Corpus luteum pl. Corpora lutea [ NL., luteous body ] (Anat.), the reddish yellow mass which fills a ruptured Graafian follicle in the mammalian ovary. --
Corpus striatum pl. Corpora striata [ NL., striate body ] (Anat.), a ridge in the wall of each lateral ventricle of the brain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. corpusculum, dim. of corpus. ] 1. A minute particle; an atom; a molecule. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles. See Blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

Virchow showed that the corpuscles of bone are homologous with those of connective tissue. Quain's Anat. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Physics) An electron. [ archaic ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Red blood corpuscles (Physiol.), in man, yellowish, biconcave, circular discs varying from 1/3500 to 1/3200 of an inch in diameter and about 1/12400 of an inch thick. They are composed of a colorless stroma filled in with semifluid hæmoglobin and other matters. In most mammals the red corpuscles are circular, but in the camels, birds, reptiles, and the lower vertebrates generally, they are oval, and sometimes more or less spherical in form. In Amphioxus, and most invertebrates, the blood corpuscles are all white or colorless. --
White blood corpuscles (Physiol.), rounded, slightly flattened, nucleated cells, mainly protoplasmic in composition, and possessed of contractile power. In man, the average size is about 1/2500 of an inch, and they are present in blood in much smaller numbers than the red corpuscles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. corpusculaire. ] Pertaining to, or composed of, corpuscles, or small particles. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corpuscular philosophy, that which attempts to account for the phenomena of nature, by the motion, figure, rest, position, etc., of the minute particles of matter. --
Corpuscular theory (Opt.), the theory enunciated by Sir Isaac Newton, that light consists in the emission and rapid progression of minute particles or corpuscles. The theory is now generally rejected, and supplanted by the undulatory theory. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Corpuscular. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An adherent of the corpuscular philosophy. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A corpuscle. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Corpuscular. Tyndall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Deprived of the privileges or form of a body corporate. [ Obs. ] Jas. II. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disincorporated p. pr. & vb. n. Disincorporating ] 1. To deprive of corporate powers, rights, or privileges; to divest of the condition of a corporate body. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To detach or separate from a corporation. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Separated from, or not included in, a corporation; disincorporated. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. en- + L. corpus body. ] Incorporation. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L. you may have the body. ] (Law) A writ having for its object to bring a party before a court or judge; especially, one to inquire into the cause of a person's imprisonment or detention by another, with the view to protect the right to personal liberty; also, one to bring a prisoner into court to testify in a pending trial. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]