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- noun A person, animal or thing treated as
expendable , to therefore use as anexperimental subject regardless of whatever loss or damage it may suffer as a result. - noun figuratively The
subject of anexperiment .
Etymologies
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From Latin corpus ("body") vile ("worthless").
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