corporeal
IPA: kˈɔrpriʌɫ
adjective
- Material; tangible; physical.
- (archaic) Pertaining to the body; bodily; corporal.
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Examples of "corporeal" in Sentences
- It is corporeal and sacrilegious.
- Brydon looked down, surprised to find himself in corporeal form.
- Which leaves you to believe the his father is alive and in corporeal form.
- The expression corporeal world includes the celestial spheres and all which is under them.
- In some instances, but not always, in corporeal strength: in activity of mind, she is his equal.
- Philoponus, in contrast, arrives at something he calls corporeal extension (sômatikón diástêma), which is a composite of Neoplatonic prime matter and indeterminate quantity and must not be confused with Philoponian space.
- The importance of William of Norwich to his aunt Liviva is made apparent in corporeal manifestations of the pain she feels: "A cold shiver invaded her innermost marrow, her face grew pale, her mind fled along with her blood, and as if dead she fell from the hands of the bystanders to the ground."
- Since the belief that God became man is central to Christianity, such a remark must be aimed at the various attempts to either reduce or eliminate the mystery of God, often taken to the point where "God" is simply identified as man's projection: "Those who have no desires have no gods either," claimed Feuerbach, "Gods are mens wishes in corporeal form" (quoted by de Lubac in The Drama of Atheist Humanism).
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