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[Eng. corporeal; -ity.1 The quality or state of being corporeal, or of having a body and substance. cor-pör-e-al-ly, adv. [Eng. corporeal; -ly.] In a corporeal or bodily manner or form; bodily, in body. " corpse " IMG:content-1001.png:[blocks in formation] A. As substantive: *I. Ordinary Language: 1. A body; the human frame. "Cold numbne streight bereaves Her corps of sense, and th' air her soul receives." Denham . 2. A body (used contemptuously); a carca . scorns his brittle corps, and seems asham'd Dryden: Don Sebastian. He's not all spirit." 3. A corpse, a dead body. "On a tom be is all the faire above, And under is the corps , Chaucer: The Squieres Tale , 10,833. 4. The body, as distinguished from the soul. "Betwene the corps and the spirit." Gower , ii. 85. 5. A body of men; a company, a party. "I immediately returned back to join my little corps ." -Melmoth , bk. xiv., lett. xvii. 6. A body or code of laws. the whole corps of the law?"-Bacon: Union of England and Scotland. IMG:content-1002.png:[blocks in formation] *2. Fig .: Any post of duty or guard. "False pastors, whom a man shall find rather in their beds, at table, or in the stews, or any where else than in their corps de gard."-Harmar: Tr. of Beza's Serm. (1587), p. 334. corps diplomat i que, s. [Fr.] The whole body of ministers or diplomatists at any court.