Meaning of corporeal in English
Classifying Adjective
corporealDefinitions
1. affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spiritExamples
- « bodily needs »
- « a corporal defect »
- « corporeal suffering »
- « a somatic symptom or somatic illness »
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Qualitative Adjective
corporealEtymology
late Middle English (in the sense ‘material’): from late Latin corporealis, from Latin corporeus‘bodily, physical’, from corpus, corpor-‘body’Definitions
1. having material or physical form or substanceExamples
- « that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible - Benjamin Jowett »
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