- of, for, or having the nature of, the body; physical; bodily; not spiritual
- of a material nature; perceptible by the senses; tangible
Origin of corporeal
from Classical Latin corporeus from corpus: see corpus
adjective
- An example of corporeal is punishment is inflicting pain on the body.
- An example of corporeal is tangible property as opposed to intellectual property.
The definition of corporeal is something related to your body or something physical or tangible.
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corporeal
adjective
- a. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the body. See Synonyms at bodily.b. Existing or manifesting in bodily form.
- Of a material nature; tangible: corporeal property.
Origin of corporeal
From Latin corporeus from corpus corpor- body ; see kwrep- in Indo-European roots.Related Forms:
- cor·po′re·al′i·ty cor·po′re·al·ness
noun
- cor·po′re·al·ly
adverb
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Adjective
(comparative more corporeal, superlative most corporeal)
Anagrams
- car pooler, car-pooler, carpooler
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Sentence Examples
- But the mind is a corporeal thing.
- This Light is not corporeal and yet is the fundamental reality of things.
- That the transmigration theory, which makes the spirit of the departed hover about for a time in quest of a new corporeal abode, would naturally lend itself to superstitious notions of this kind can scarcely be doubted.
- (a) The first of these characters is described by anticipation in Plato's Sophist (246 C seq.), where, arguing with those " who drag everything down to the corporeal " (vcnµa), the Eleatic stranger would fain prove to them the existence of something incorporeal, as follows.
- Then the soul, a moving essence, generates the corporeal or phenomenal world.
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