corporeal

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The fivefold division of nature--corporeal, vital, sensitive, rational, intellectual--is all represented in his organisation.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or characteristic of the body. See Synonyms at bodily.
  2. adjective Of a material nature; tangible.

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  • Draw her into a conversation on some intimate boy-and-girl matter and her extensive data-base will provide you with an elaborate rehearsal for the real thing, if moving on from virtual romance to something more corporeal is among your ambitions Not that Artificial Life, Inc. is planning to aim its product exclusively at lonely heterosexual male geeks. —  Asimov's SF - February2006
  • We are not corporeal -- therefore, we may speculate that we continue in some form. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 03 - March 2001
  • Other things are material and corporeal, and what union, what fellowship can a spirit be supposed to have with them? —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
  • Spirits are not corporeal, and cannot handle eggs, much less cram them down a man's throat. —  The Big Otter
  • For even the corporeal matter, which is supplied by the mother, and which he calls the corporeal substance, is originally derived from Adam: and likewise the active seminal power of the father, which is the immediate seminal virtue (in the production) of this man But Christ is said to have been in Adam according to the "corporeal substance," not according to the seminal virtue. —  Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
 

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  1. From Latin corporeus, from corpus, corpor-, body; see kwrep- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin corporeus, bodily (from corpus (corpor-), body: see corpse), + -al. Cf. corporeous, corporal.
 

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/kɔrˈpoʊrəəl/
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