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Pillories and other corporal
infections.

Milton.

Corporal punishment (law),
punishment applied to the body of the offender, including the
death penalty, whipping, and imprisonment.

2. Having a body or substance; not
spiritual; material. In this sense now usually written
corporeal. Milton.

A corporal heaven . . . .where the stare
are.

Latimer.

What seemed corporal melted

As breath into the wind.

Shak.

Syn. -- Corporal, Bodily,
Corporeal. Bodily is opposed to mental; as,
bodily affections. Corporeal refers to the whole
physical structure or nature, of the body; as, corporeal
substance or frame. Corporal, as now used, refers more to
punishment or some infliction; as, corporal punishment. To
speak of corporeal punishment is an error. Bodily
austerities; the corporeal mold.

{ Cor"po*ral (kôr"p&osl;*ral),
||Cor`po*ra"le (-r?"l?), } n.


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