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corpus

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES habeas corpus COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE habeas ▪ The Senate added restrictions on habeas corpus , or the right of prisoners to appeal against death sentences. ▪ Kennedy and other opponents of habeas corpus ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Corpus is a Canadian dance company whose work often combines humour with dance. Besides major productions, they often perform in schools, and are co-creators of the Treehouse TV series 4 Square . They have performed thousands of shows internationally since ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
(plural corpora ), late 14c., from Latin corpus , literally "body" (see corporeal ). The sense of "body of a person" (mid-15c. in English) and "collection of facts or things" (1727 in English) both were present in Latin. Corpus Christi (late 14c.), feast ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corpus \Cor"pus\ (-p[u^]s), n.; pl. Corpora (-p[-o]*r[.a]). A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing. Corpus callosum (k[a^]l*l[=o]"s[u^]m); pl. Corpora callosa (-s?) [NL., callous body] (Anat.), the great band of commissural fibers uniting ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. capital as contrasted with the income derived from it [syn: principal , principal sum ] a collection of writings; "he edited the Hemingway corpus" the main part of an organ or other bodily structure [also: corpora (pl)]

Usage examples of corpus.

Yet there are a very few strange forms in our corpus that look like aorists by their ending, but still show a long stem-vowel, e.

He was, indeed, while President, violently denounced by the opposition as a tyrant and a usurper, for having gone beyond his constitutional powers in authorizing or permitting the temporary suppression of newspapers, and in wantonly suspending the writ of habeas corpus and resorting to arbitrary arrests.

Whereas an insurrection exists in the State of Florida, by which the lives, liberty, and property of loyal citizens of the United States are endangered: And whereas it is deemed proper that all needful measures should be taken for the protection of such citizens and all officers of the United States in the discharge of their public duties in the State aforesaid: Now, therefore, be it known that I, Abraham LINCOLN, President of the United States, do hereby direct the commander of the forces of the United States on the Florida coast to permit no person to exercise any office or authority upon the islands of Key West, the Tortugas, and Santa Rosa, which may be inconsistent with the laws and Constitution of the United States, authorizing him at the same time, if he shall find it necessary, to suspend there the writ of habeas corpus, and to remove from the vicinity of the United States fortresses all dangerous or suspected persons.

Pepe Boltana, CEO of the Banco de Corpus Cristi whose head office is on Grand Cayman.

AFI was there, ministries of agriculture and so forth, and one of the banks the Columbians use, the Madrid and Grand Cayman Banco de Corpus Cristi Internacional.

Associated Foods International and the Banco de Corpus Cristi Internacional have played parts in at least three earlier novels of mine.

Corpus Christi was founded in 1352 because fees for celebrating masses for the dead were so inflated after the plague that two guilds of Cambridge decided to establish a college whose scholars, as clerics, would be required to pray for their deceased members.

Split-brain animal with the chiasm and corpus callosum cut is first trained with the left eve blindfolded.

Zipser walked down Free School Lane past the black clunch walls of Corpus.

In these animals modified by heredity, the two eyes generally protruded, although in the parents usually only one showed exophthalmia, the lesion having been made in most cases only on one of the corpora restiformia.

During his reign, the Habeas Corpus Act was passed and feudalism was practically abolished.

They had Habeas Corpus and Chemistry with them, as well as certain supplies Doc had requested.

Last, and almost squealing in his delight, despite orders to the contrary, was Habeas Corpus.

Lincoln had been willing to defy Justice Taney on habeas corpus in this state, but if he wanted to prevent a vote of secession, he would have to expand his powers far beyond any ever considered in a democracy.

If arrested, they would have been discharged on habeas corpus, were the writ allowed to operate.