Crossword clues for corpulence
corpulence
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corpulence \Cor"pu*lence\ (k?r"p?-lens), Corpulency \Cor"pu*len*cy\ (k?r"p?-len-s?), n. [L. corpulentia: cf. F. corpulence.]
Excessive fatness; fleshiness; obesity.
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Thickness; density; compactness. [Obs.]
The heaviness and corpulency of water requiring a great force to divide it.
--Ray.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c. "body size" (either large or small, with adjective), from Old French corpulence (14c.) "corpulence; physical size, build," from Latin corpulentia "grossness of body," noun of quality from corpulentus (see corpulent). Restriction to "bulkiness, obesity" began late 16c. Related: Corpulency.
Wiktionary
n. The state or characteristic of being corpulent.
WordNet
n. the property of excessive fatness [syn: overweight, stoutness, adiposis]
Usage examples of "corpulence".
George III was to turn forty-seven on June 4, which made him two years younger than Adams, and though taller, he had a comparable inclination to corpulence.
The huge corpulence of that Hogarthian monster undulates on the surface, scarcely drawing one inch of water.
His ruptured tubules had been unable to heal, owing to his corpulence, and he slumped in his sitting-pit like a half-filled water-bladder.
As he told long, unfunny jokes, thrummed on the piano, and danced with wonky corpulence, he had become aware that his audience was by no means a captive one, and so began to simulate an even more toe-curling pathos, recounting his long history of failure, telling of previous flops with a forgiving smile, simpering into the microphone about his obesity, lack of rehearsing time, alcoholism, etc.
His huge ebon-black body, powerfully muscled though inclining toward corpulence, was nude except for a necklace of rubies, each the size of a plover's egg, that depended about his throat.
Arruns, if he had little of the Etruscan about him in his language, which was Latin of the rudest kind, spoken in a broad Greek accent, had at least the corpulence for which the foretellers of the future [53] were proverbial.