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[edit]Noun
[edit]corpusses
- plural of corpus
- 1865, Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, “Second Class to New Zealand and Back”, page 781, columns 1–2:
- He was a man to whom his pigs were all in all; he had established his farmyard in the forecastle, over the steerage, turning out the crew from their usual quarters, and putting them elsewhere; and it was his delight of a morning to stand and watch his pigs either feeding or being butchered; and when they were dead and ‘dressed,’ he would seek relaxation from his professional responsibilities in feeling their ‘cold corpusses,’ measuring the depth of their fat with his own chubby forefingers—and evidently rioting in the pleasures of imagination with regard to chitterlings and cracklings, pettitoes and sausages.
- 1903, Ellen D’Apery, The Sociable Ghost, pages 80, 81:
- The rule was that when new corpusses came in they must be put into the receiving vault the first year. […] All the corpusses what wasn’t claimed by the folks related to the corpus was just chucked into them, sometimes three and more in one. When they got three or four into one box and the lid wouldn’t shut they jumped on the top or jammed the bones down till it did. One woman had all her ribs broken and several others had their breast bones stove in to get enough of them into one box.
- 1998, Rolf H. Bremmer Jr, Thomas S.B. Johnston, Oebele Vries, editors, Approaches to Old Frisian Philology, the Netherlands: Rodopi, →ISBN, “Preface: Old Frisian Philology: The Way Ahead (Rolf H. Bremmer Jr)”, page x:
- An agreement between the University of Groningen and the Frisian Academy of Leeuwarden in 1997 has opened the means to a realization of a comprehensive dictionary. Groningen will provide the experience and archives built up since the late 1940s, while Leeuwarden will contribute especially its expertise in the electronic data processing, acquired by means of its digital corpusses of Middle and Modern Frisian.