corporeal
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English corporealle, equivalent to Latin corporeus + -al, from corpus (“body”); compare corporal.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (rhotic) IPA(key): /kɔːɹˈpɔːɹiəl/
- (non-rhotic) IPA(key): /kɔːˈpɔːɹiəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Adjective
[edit]corporeal (comparative more corporeal, superlative most corporeal)
- Material; tangible; physical.
- 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
- His omnipotence That to corporeal substance could add Speed almost spiritual.
- 2000, Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, page 373:
- She is always diagnosing me. My corporeal health is of almost as much interest to her as my spiritual health: she is especially proprietary about my bowels.
- 2014, Volker Meja, Nico Stehr, Knowledge and Politics:
- Sometimes the attempt was made to reduce the inner to the outer world (Condillac, Mach, Avenarius, materialism); sometimes the outer to the inner world (Descartes, Berkeley, Fichte); sometimes the sphere of the absolute to the others (e.g., by trying to infer causally the essence and existence of something divine in general); sometimes the vital world to the pregivenness of the dead corporeal world (as in the empathy theory of life, espoused, among others, by Descartes and Theodor Lipps); sometimes the assumption of a co-world to a pregivenness of the own inner world of the assuming subject combined with that of an outer corporeal world (theories of analogy to and empathy with the consciousness of others);
- (archaic) Pertaining to the body; bodily; corporal.
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[edit]bodily — see bodily
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