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corporal
noun
the lowest-ranking noncommissioned officer, just below a sergeant; specif., an enlisted person in the fourth grade in the U.S. Army and Marine Corps
Related Forms:
- corporalcy noun pl. corporalcies
- corporalship noun
adjective
- of the body; bodily
- Now Rare personal
- Obsolete corporeal (sense )
Related Forms:
- corporally adverb
noun
Eccles. a small linen cloth put on the center of the altar, on which the bread and chalice are placed for the Eucharist
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