corporaltył (kor poralti)

[See corporality.] A body; a band of persons. corporast, n. An obsolete form of corp or all. corpora tet (kôr pō-rāt), v. [ corporate; embody. To be corp orated in my person. Stow , Hen. VIII., an. 1545. II. in trans. To become united or be inc or porated. Though she [the soul] corporate With no world yet, by a just Nemesis Kept off from all. Dr. H. More, Sleep of the Soul, ii. 19. corporate (kôr pō-rāt), a. [L. corp or at us , pp.: see the verb.] 1. United in a body in the legal sense, as a number of individuals who are empowered to transact busine as an individual; legally incorporated; constituting a corporation: as, a corporate a embly or society; a corporate town.-2. Of or pertaining to a corporation; belonging to an organized community: as, corporate rights or po e ions. The grants of land to the burghers and their succe ors were sufficiently early to prove that there was no recognized bar to the po e ion of corporate property even in the fourteenth century. Stubbs , Const. Hist. (2d ed.), § 810. 3. In general, of or relating to any body of persons or individuals united in a company or community; common; collective. They answer in a joint and corporate voice. Shak ., T. of A., ii. 2. Our national welfare and ever-increasing empire can only be maintained by an adherence to those principles of corporate discipline and individual sacrifice which are the pride of our sons and brothers when they go to fight our battles abroad. Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XL. 151. 4. Forming or being a body of any kind; embodied; combined as a whole. The tribe, as a whole, is held to be responsible corporately for the acts of each of its members, and hence it is nece ary that the acts and beliefs of every one of the members should be subject to the approval of the tribe. J. Fiske , Evolutionist, p. 239. He [King Stephen] founded the Abbey of Feuersham, where he now corporately resteth. Fabyan, Chron., I. cexxxiii.