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corporeal
What does corporeal mean?
corporeal (adjective): material; tangible; physical.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use corporeal in a sentence?
- That which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
Where does corporeal come from?
From Middle English corporealle, equivalent to Latin corporeus + -al, from corpus (“body”); compare corporal.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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every second one of a series
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material; tangible; physical
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done on purpose; intentional
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filled with a great quantity
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