28 March 2015
corporeal
[kawr-pawr-ee-uh l, -pohr-]
adjective
1. of the nature of the physical body; bodily.
2. material; tangible:
corporeal property.
Origin
late Middle English Latin
1375-1425; late Middle English < Latin corpore (us) bodily ( corpor- (stem of corpus) body + -eus adj. suffix) + -al1
Related forms
corporeality, corporealness, noun
corporeally, adverb
noncorporeal, adjective
noncorporeality, noun
transcorporeal, adjective
Can be confused
corporal, corporeal.
Synonyms
1. See physical.
Antonyms
1. spiritual. 2. intangible.
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Examples from the web for corporeal
– There, corporeal lashes in public would probably served up in no time for disturbing the peace.
– Our skin microbes can provide us with a layer of defense, a moat around our corporeal castle.
– Unfortunately, he doesn’t have the presence or corporeal sensitivity to make such body doodles enthralling.
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Today’s aphorism
The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.
– Rumi
On this day
28 March 1930 – Turkey changes the name of Constantinople to Istanbul and Angora to Ankara.
28 March 1939 – end of the Spanish Civil War, with Nationalist General Francisco Franco taking control of Madrid after a 3 year war against the Government of the Second Spanish Republic, which was led by President Manuel Azaña. Franco established a fascist dictatorship which lasted for 36 years. The Civil War had been fought between Fascist and Republican forces. The Republicans were comprised of a number of socialist, communist and anarchist forces. The Soviet Union backed the Republicans, but opposed other socialist forces such as the POUM (Workers Party of Marxist Unification), PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party), CNT (Confederationo of anarcho-syndicalist trade unions) and others.
28 March 1964 – The Beatles have 10 hits in the Billboard charts at the same time.
28 March 2008 – President George W. Bush states that the USA is not in recession, but just slowing down and that tax cuts will stimulate spending. The US National Bureau of Economic Research declared the USA recession started in December 2007 and ended in July 2009.
28 March 2008 – The Pew Centre reports that the USA has the highest number of incarcerations in the world, at 2.3 million, which surpasses the number of prisoners in China, Russia and Iran. The USA also has the highest rate of imprisonments in the world as a percentage of population.