corporas

English

Etymology

From Middle English coperas, copereaus, corpas, corperas, corperaus, corporas, corporasse, corporaus, corporax, corporeals, corprax, from Old French corporals, corporaus, plural of corporal (“corporal”, adjective).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɔː(ɹ)pəɹəs/

Noun

corporas (plural corporases)

1. (obsolete) The corporal, or communion cloth.
   • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 60–63:

     The hawke tyryd on a bone,
     And in the holy place
     She mutyd there a chase
     Upon my corporas face.

     The hawk seized and tore at a bone,
     And in the holy place (altar)
     She dropped a fall of dung there
     Upon my corporas’s face.

   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge, since the Conquest, [London]: [[…] Iohn Williams […]], →OCLC:

     corporas clothes

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “corporas”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Porcaros, sorocarp

Latin

Verb

corporās

1. second-person singular present active indicative of corporō