corporative 
corporative (kor'po-ra-tiv), a. _ 
-ivf; = F. corporatif.] Corporate 
character of a corporation. 
No citizen can ) taxed except as allowed by this law, 
bv the law regulating the provincial diets, and by the cor- 
porative guilds. The Nation, Dec. 1, 1870, p. 364. 
corporator (kor'po-ra-tor), n. [< NL. eorpora- 
127G 
[As corporate + corporificationt (k6r-por"i-fi-ka'shon), . [< 
ate; having the corporify (see -ntiim), after F. eorpOTHlcatoen.] 
The act of corporifying, or giving body to; 
specifically, the process by which a soul is sup- 
posed to create for itself a body. 
COrporifyt (kor-por'i-fi), v. t. [= F. corporifier 
= Pg. cor> 
corpse-sheet 
The term was again used during the second empire, repla- 
cing the Chamber i.f Deputies. Corps Of cadets, in the 
I'nited States Military Academy at West Point, a corps 
made up of cadets, one being appointed from each con- 
gressional district, one from each territory, and one from 
the District of Columbia, in addition to ten appointments 
at large made by the 1'resident from the District of Co- 
lumbia, from among the sons of officers of the army and 
navy, or such others as he may select. Corps of engi- 
in the act or articles of incorporation. 
It [the camp-meeting] is the fruit of a chartered associa- 
tion, with corporate rights and franchises. ... Of course, 
the corporators are religious men. 
Pop. Sci. Mo., XXII. 623. 
rate bureau of the War Department, whose officers and 
bordinates are controlled by a chief of engineers with 
the rank of brigadier-general. It has charge of all forti- 
_ Pg. eoraorificar, < L. corpus (eorpor-), body, 
to,', < L. corpora, pp. corporate, corporate: + -/care, <facere, make: see -fy.] Toembody; neers, a part of the United States arm y jornnnga_s e pa. 
see' corporate, v.] A member of a corporation; form into a body ; materialize, 
specifically, one of the original members named The spirit of the world corporified. Boyle, Works, 1. 495. 
corporispiritual (k6r*po-ri-spir'i-tu-al), a. [< 
L. corpus (eorpor-), body, + spiritus, spirit: see 
corporal, spiritual.'] Of a nature intermediate 
between matter and spirit. [Bare.] 
It has been stated that there is, somewhere or another, 
a world of souls which communicate with their bodies by 
wondrous filaments of a nature neither mental nor ma- 
terial, but of a tertium quid fit to be a go-between ; as it 
COrporaturet, [= Pg- eorporatura, volume of 
a body, = It. eorporatura, corpulence, figure, 
form, < ML. eorporatura, bodily exercise, lit. 
bodily form, < L. corporare, pp. corpora tus, form 
into a body: see corporate.] 1. The fashion 
or constitution of the body. Mmsheu, 1617. 
For whose corporature, leneaments of body, behaviour 
of manners, and conditions of mind, she must trust to 
others. Strype, Sir T. Smith, App., iv. 
2. In astral., the physical traits, temperament, 
etc., of a person, as determined by the planet 
in the ascendant at his nativity. 
Corporature. He [Jupiter] signifies an upright, straight, 
and tall stature ; ... in his speech he is sober and of grave 
were a corporispiritual copper enclosed in a spiritucorpo- 
real gntta-percha. 
De Morgan, Budget of Paradoxes, p. 377. 
corporosity (kor-po-ros'i-ti), n. [< L. corpus 
(eorpor-), a body, '+ -o'sity.] A living body 
considered as a mass of matter ; bodily bulk, 
especially of a person: as, his huge corporosity. 
[Colloq. and humorous.] 
corposant (kor'po-zaut), . [Also written, 
corruptly, corpusaiice, composant, compasant ; 
< Pg. corpo santo = OSp. corpo santo, Sp. cuer- 
discourse. W. Li%, Introd. to Astrology, p. 39. po santo = It. corpo santo, holy body (cf. ME. 
3. The state of being embodied. Dr. H. More, corsaint, -seint, -sant^saunt, a saint, ,his ody, 
corporaxt, * An obsolete form of corporal 1 . 
corporeal (k6r-po're-al), a. [< L. corpore-us, 
- " v 
esp. as a holy relic, < OF. cars saint), < L. corpus 
sanctum, holy body, or corpus sancti, body of 
a saint: see corpse and saint, and cf. corsaint, 
a doublet of corposant.] A ball of light, sup- 
posed to be of an electrical nature, sometimes 
observed in dark tempestuous nights about the 
decks and rigging of a ship, but particularly at 
the mastheads and yard-arms ; St. Elmo's light 
or fire. Also called corpse-light. 
I'pon the main top-gallant mast-head was a ball of light, 
which the sailors call a corposant (corpus sancti). . . . Sail- 
bodily (< corpus (eorpor-), body: see corpse), 
-al. Cf. corporeous, corporal*.] 1. Of a ma- 
terial or physical nature; having the charac- 
teristics of a material body; not mental or 
spiritual in constitution. 
His omnipotence, 
That to corporeal substances could add 
Speed almost spiritual. Milton, P. L., viii. 109. 
Though the corporeal hand was gone, a spiritual mem- 
ber remained. Hawthorne, Ethan Brand. 
2. Belating to a material body or material 
things ; relating to that which is physical : as, 
corporeal rights. 
Temperance is corporeal piety. 
Theodore Parker, Ten Sermons. 
Corporeal form. See form. Corporeal heredita- corps 1 ! (korps), n. 
ments or property, in tew, such as may be perceived Forthwith her ghost out of her ,-orps did flit. 
by the senses, in contradistinction to imorponal^ rtfhtl, Spenser (Arber's Eng. Gamer, I. 253). 
flcations, military recolinoissances and surveys, the con- 
struction of lighthouses, and the improvement of rivers 
and harbors, and in time of war supplies miners, sappers, 
and pontoniers. Corps volant [F.], a Hying corps ; a body 
of troops intended for rapid movements. Diplomatic 
corps See diplomatic. Esprit de corps [F.]. See 
esprit. Marine corps, a body of troops enlisted for ser- 
vice at naval stations and on board men-of-war. The men 
are drilled as infantry, and when ashore perform the duties 
of land troops; when on board ship they perform guard duty, 
and in action serve as sharp-shoo ters. Ordnance Corps, 
the Ordnance Department. See department. Signal 
Corps, a corps charged with the general signal service of 
the United States army, and with the erection, equipment, 
and management of field-telegraphs used with military 
forces in the field ; with constructing and operating lines of 
military telegraph ; with establishing and maintaining sig- 
nal stations at lighthouses and at life-saving stations ; and 
with meteorological observations and predictions relating 
to the weather for the benefit of agriculture and commerce. 
It consists of a chief signal officer with the rank of briga- 
dier-general, and a certain number of second lieutenants, 
sergeants, corporals, and privates. The law provides for 
the annual appointment of second lieutenants from the 
enlisted men of the Signal Corps. Besides the above, act- 
ing signal officers are temporarily detailed from the line of 
the army for administrative service. The meteorological 
division of the Signal Corps at Washington is popularly 
called the Weather Bureau. 
A"baiTof / light" sup- corpse (kdrps), M. [Early mod. E. also corps; 
< ME. corps, also cars (> corse, q. v.), a body, 
esp. a dead body, < OF. corps, also cars, F. 
(see corps'*) = OSp. corpo, Sp. cuerpo = 
(see corpus, corporal 1 , corporeal, etc.), = AS. 
hrif, the bowels, the womb: see midriff.] It. 
A living body; the physical frame of an ani- 
which tin- sailors r;ill ;i < 1 /7*').s-(l/ir (corpus sjuifiu. ... n;iu , ' . .\ ' T ' . . 
ors have a notion that if the corposant rises in the rigging mal, especially of a human being. 
it is a sign of fair weather, but if it conies lower down 
there will be a storm. 
R. II. Dana, Jr., Before the Mast, p. 405. 
Aft there are the helmsman and the officer of the watch 
to keep you company, with a ampotant burning at the 
fore-yardarm. W. C. Mussell, Jack's Courtship, xx. 
The older spelling of corpse. 
which are not so perceivable, as obligations of all kinds. 
Corporeal rights, rights to corporeal property. =Syn. 
Physical, Corporal, etc. See bodily. 
corporealism (kor-po're-al-izm), . [< corpo- 
real + -ism.] The principles of a corporealist; 
materialism. [Bare.] 
The Atheists pretend, . . . from the principles of cor- 
porealism itself, to evince that there can be no corporeal 
deity, after this manner. Cudworth, Intellectual System. 
corporealist (kor-po're-al-ist), n. [< corporeal 
+ -ist.] One who denies the existence of spirit- 
ual substances ; a materialist. [Bare.] 
Some corporealists and mechanics vainly pretended to 
make a world without a God. Ep. Berkeley, Siris, 259. 
corporeality (kor-p6-re-al'i p -ti), n. [< corpore- 
al + -ity.] The state of being corporeal. 
What trial can be made to try a prince? 
I will oppose this noble corps of mine 
To any danger that may end the doubt. 
Fletcher (and another), Noble Gentleman, v. 1. 
corps 2 (kor), n. [When first introduced (late 
in 17th century), sometimes spelled, after E. 
analogies, cor, core (see eorcS) ; < F. corps 
(pron. kor), < OF. corps, the body, > ME. corps, 
mod. corpse: see corps 1 , corpse.] 1. A body; a 
visible object: only in the legal phrase corps 
certain (which see, below). 2. A body or 
number of persons conventionally or formally 
associated or acting together: as, the diplo- 
matic corps. See Corps Legislatif,~belovr, and 
esprit de corps, under esprit. 3. Milit.: (a) A 
part of the army expressly organized accord- 
Trass^Jftnafflan^ s^s^ZF^SiS 
L , w.jtv, j onH Tn QTr>T\oTa aa n.vAmmanr or an IvtnAnAnnaTlT 
Therefore where-ever that thou doest behold 
A comely corpse, with beautie faire endewed, 
Know this for certaine, that the same doth hold 
A beauteous soule, with faire conditions thewed. 
Spenser, In Honour of Beautie. 
To stuff this maw, this vast un-hidebound corpse. 
Milton, P. L., x. 601. 
Look, how many plumes are placed 
On her huge corps, so many waking eyes 
Stick underneath. B. Jonson, Poetaster, v. 1. 
Women and maids shall particularly examine them- 
selves about the variety of their apparell, their too much 
care of their corps. Richcome. 
2. A dead body, especially, and usually, of a 
human being : originally with the epithet dead 
expressed or implied in the context. [Dead 
corpse is now regarded as tautological.] 
Alle the bretherin and sistrin shullen ben at then en- 
teryng of the dede corps, and offerin at his messe. 
Englith Oilils (E. E. T. S.), p. 41. 
His [the Duke of Gloucester's] Corps the same Day was 
conveyed to St. Albans, and there buried. 
Baker, Chronicles, p. 188. 
The dead corps of poor calves and sheep. 
Middleton, Chaste Maid, ii. 2. 
3f. Eccles., the land with which a prebend or 
poration. 
corporealize (kor-po're-al-iz), v. t. ; pret. and 
other ecclesiastical office in England is en- 
dowed. 
The prebendaries, over and above their reserved rents, 
have a corps. Bacon, Liber Regis, p. 133. 
, j incorporate. 
corporeally (kor-po're-al-i), adv. 1. In the 
body ; in a bodily or material form or manner. 
2. With respect to the body. 
It should be remembered that men are mentally no less 
than corporeally gregarious. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 140. 
corporealst, pi- See corporal^. 
corporeity (kor-po-re'j-ti), n. [= F. corporeity 
= Sp. corporcidad = Pg. corporeidade = It. cor- 
poreita, < ML. corporeita(t-)s, < L. corporeus, 
corporeal : see corporeal.] The character or 
state of having a body or of being embodied ; 
corporeality ; materiality. 
The one attributed corporeity to God. Stillingjieet. 
The corporeity of angels and devils is distinguished [by 
Flndd] on the principle of rarum et densum, thin or thick. 
/. D' Israeli, Amen, of Lit., II. 315. 
Angels dining with Abraham, or pulling Lot into the 
house, are described as having complete corporeity. 
H. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., 93. 
Form of corporeity. See form. 
corporeoust (kor-po're-us), a. [= Sp. corporeo 
= Pg. It. corporeo, (. L. corporeus, bodily, < 
corpus (eorpor-), body: see corpse, corpus, and 
cf. corporeal.'] Corporeal. 
So many corporeous shapes. Hammond, Conscience. 
and members, as a regiment or an independent 
company, or any other military body having 
such organization : as, the Marine Corps ; the 
Corps of Topographical Engineers; hospital =Syn. 2. Remains, corse (poetic). 
corps, etc. (o) More specifically, the tactical corpse-candle (k6rps'_kan*dl)^n. 
unit of a large army next above a division. 
It is usually composed of several divisions of infantry and 
cavalry, contingents of artillery and other branches of the 
service, and is to a large degree complete in itself. France 
has 20 corps d'annee, 18 in the country, and 2 in Algeria 
and Tunis, and Germany has an even larger number. The 
number of men varies from about 18,000 to about 40,000. 
See army-corps. 
4. In the German universities, a students' so- 
ciety. 
1. A candle 
used at ceremonious watchings of a corpse be- 
fore its interment, as at lich-wakes. Candles 
are set at the head and feet, and often one is 
set upon the corpse itself. 2. The will-o'-the- 
wisp, or ignis fatuus, a luminous exhalation 
which, when seen in a churchyard, is supposed 
to portend death, and to indicate by its course 
the direction the corpse-bearers will take. [Lo- 
cal, Eng.] 
A corps has no existence outside of its own university ; corpse-gate (korps'gat), n. A covered gateway 
it has no affiliations,^' chapters. ' ^.^.^ at the entrance to churchyards, erected to af- 
ford shelter for the cofnn and mourners while 
Corps badges. See badgei. Corps certain [F.], in ^ : t * _ ^-a <,,,,;,, O f t np officiating 
French law, a specific object, in contradistinction to one ' 
which is not identified and distinguishable from others of clergyman. Also called hell-gate. 
the same nature, and which cannot be replaced, as the sub- corpse-light (korps'lit), n. [< corpse + tight, 
Ject of an agreement, by any other object : thus, a sped- gf eornxe-caxdlc and corposant.] 1. Same as 
fled horse orship, etc., is a corps certain, but so many tons fnrnn <innt 2 TVin i<mi fatniis or will o'-thp 
of hay or grain are not-Corps de ballet [F.], the corps cotposant. 4. me i ignis latui 
of dancers who perform ballets. Corps debataille[K.|, wisp; a corpse-candle. 
the main body of an army drawn up between the wings for T i le corvse-lii/liti dance they're gone, and now ! 
battle. Corps de garde [F.], a post occupied by a body No more ; s g 'j v 'n to gifted eye ! Scow, Gleiiflnhis. 
of men on guard ; also, the body which occupies it.- Corps , , .. ,,,,,,- 
de reserve [F.], a body of troops kept out of action, and corpse-plant (korps'plant), n. The Indian-pipe, 
held in readiness to be brought forward if their aid should Monotropa nniflora: so called from its pale 
be required.- Corps diplomatique [F.], the diplomatic waxy app earance. 
sheet (korps' shet), n. A shroud or 
sheet. 
ue required. i/orps uipipmauque ir.j, HVB uipioi : -\ v gxv app 
corps (which see, under diplomatic). Corps Leglslatif _;,, J-u, 
[F.], in French hist., the representative assembly during MJ 
the first empire and the years immediately preceding. Wllmllt^-s 
