Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In the body; in a bodily or material form or manner.
  • With respect to the body.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In the body; in a bodily form or manner.

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  • adverb In a corporeal manner.

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Examples

  • By PLACE, not that they are in it corporeally, that is, not that they occupy and fill up a certain local space, commensurate with their substance; but they are in it intellectually, that is, they exist in a place without the occupying and repletion of any local space, which the schoolmen denominate by way of definition, "to be in a place."

    The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2 1560-1609 1956

  • For this reason, he is said to have descended from heaven in respect of his divinity, not that his divinity quitted heaven to conceal itself in the prison of the body, but because, although he filled all things, it yet resided in the humanity of Christ corporeally, that is, naturally, and in an ineffable manner.

    Biblical Evidence for Catholicism 2009

  • It seemed, in obedience to some great law of physics, more potent than gravitation and more subtle, that they must corporeally melt each into each there before my very eyes.

    WHEN GOD LAUGHS 2010

  • Atoms make up the rival part of a particular good, that which may be possessed corporeally by just one person at a time -- a banana, say, or a Cuisinart, or a paperback edition of A Tale of Two Cities.

    Atoms, Bits, and Growth, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • “Jews and gentiles in antiquity,” writes a historian of early Judaism, “were corporeally, visually, linguistically, and socially indistinguishable” from Gentiles.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • “Jews and gentiles in antiquity,” writes a historian of early Judaism, “were corporeally, visually, linguistically, and socially indistinguishable” from Gentiles.

    Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

  • Atoms make up the rival part of a particular good, that which may be possessed corporeally by just one person at a time -- a banana, say, or a Cuisinart, or a paperback edition of A Tale...

    EconLog: Growth: Causal Factors Archives 2010

  • One is the recent interest in more traditional stories, and the archetypical, corporeally ugly baddies found in places like fairy stories and myth.

    Archive 2008-09-01 Heather McDougal 2008

  • One is the recent interest in more traditional stories, and the archetypical, corporeally ugly baddies found in places like fairy stories and myth.

    Evil, Incarnate Heather McDougal 2008

  • For even as the images could serve as a means of inducing visions, providing a conduit for the women's spiritual longings, they could also serve as objects of the women's desires, physically and corporeally present.

    Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008

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