Crossword clues for corporeal
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Corporeal \Cor*po"re*al\ (k[^o]r*p[=o]"r[-e]*al), 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.
His omnipotence
That to corporeal substance could add
Speed almost spiritual.
--Milton.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., with adjectival suffix -al (1) + Latin corporeus "of the nature of a body," from corpus "body" (living or dead), from PIE *kwrpes, from root *kwrep- "body, form, appearance," probably from a verbal root meaning "to appear" (cognates: Sanskrit krp- "form, body," Avestan kerefsh "form, body," Old English hrif "belly," Old High German href "womb, belly, abdomen").
Wiktionary
a. 1 material; tangible; physical. 2 (rfc-sense: English) Of or pertaining to the body; bodily.
WordNet
adj. having material or physical form or substance; "that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible" - Benjamin Jowett [syn: material] [ant: incorporeal]
affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; "bodily needs"; "a corporal defect"; "corporeal suffering"; "a somatic symptom or somatic illness" [syn: bodily, corporal, somatic]
Wikipedia
Corporeal may refer to:
- Matter (corporeal, or actual, physical substance or matter), generally considered to be a substance (often a particle) that has rest mass and (usually) also volume
- Body, of or relating to the body
- Corporeal (Altar Linen)
- A term devised by Harry Partch to describe his philosophy of musical theatre
- Corporeal mime
- Corporeal punishment
Usage examples of "corporeal".
The pure and sublime idea which they entertained of the Supreme Being escaped the gross conception of the Pagan multitude, who were at a loss to discover a spiritual and solitary God, that was neither represented under any corporeal figure or visible symbol, nor was adored with the accustomed pomp of libations and festivals, of altars and sacrifices.
It is as if the Emersonian model of Oversoul, of a bloodstream that connects living creatures, were moved out of polite nineteenth-century rhetoric and shown to be the life-saving, corporeal principle it is.
Divine wisdom, therefore, fittingly provides man with means of salvation, in the shape of corporeal and sensible signs that are called sacraments.
Of the corporeal thus brought into being by Nature the elemental materials of things are its very produce, but how do animal and vegetable forms stand to it?
A first principle is that the knowing of sensible objects is an act of the soul, or of the living conjoint, becoming aware of the quality of certain corporeal entities, and appropriating the ideas present in them.
A disturbance of the corporeal organs, which especially influence this portion of the brain, naturally tends to the development of insanity or imbecility.
This labor is immaterial, even if it is corporeal and affective, in the sense that its products are intangible, a feeling of ease, well-being, satisfaction, excitement, or passion.
But it must be observed that Christ did use certain sacraments having a corporeal matter, viz.
But it is to be observed that in those sacraments, whereby an exceptional grace surpassing altogether the proportion of a human act, is conferred, some corporeal matter is employed externally, e.
In those sacraments which have a corporeal matter, this matter needs to be applied by a minister of the Church, who stands in the place of Christ, which denotes that the excellence of the power which operates in the sacraments is from Christ.
She felt jihe, the moment of disconnection with her corporeal body, and then, as her Avatar, the great bird Ras Shamra, she was passing across the grey, white, and black landscape of Otherwhere.
Then eventually our corporeal bond will be tied, with Solingen scissors.
We consider, then, two aspects of music: corporeal and natural analogues, and symbology.
By the same token, musical augmentations of tension and their release, as well as the resolution of chord progressions, find analogues in corporeal stresses and their relief, i.
The surviving Celestials and the Corporeal were checking the bodies of the intruders.