Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The state of being material or corporeal; physical existence.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character or state of having a body or of being embodied; corporeality; materiality.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of having a body; the state of being corporeal; materiality.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The quality or fact of having a physical or material body.
- noun A
body , a physical substance.
Etymologies
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Examples
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If on the other hand density is itself a quality like what they call corporeity, then the cause will be that particular quality.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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But it will be asked, how can Christian unity exist apart from visible manifestation or "corporeity"?
Some Facts of Religion and of Life: Sermons Preached before Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland, 1866-76. 1823-1886 1877
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Most people who held a version of this theory agreed that at least a “form of corporeity” was required in all physical substances, but they disagreed over how many additional substantial forms were required for a given kind of body.
Binarium Famosissimum Spade, Paul Vincent 2008
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But these paradoxes of their power, corporeity, mortality, taking of shapes, transposing bodies, and carnal copulations, are sufficiently confuted by Zanch.c. 10, l.
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De libero arbitrio, as first form, noting expressly that he is not using the notion of form in this connection in Aristotle's sense as what enters into a form-matter composite (as the first form corporeity does) (Luard 1861, 4).
Robert Grosseteste Lewis, Neil 2007
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She saw nothing of Winterborne during the days of her recovery; and perhaps on that account her fancy wove about him a more romantic tissue than it could have done if he had stood before her with all the specks and flaws inseparable from corporeity.
The Woodlanders 2006
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Here, forsooth, he plainly says, that the inanimate parts of the world are by inflammation turned into an animated thing, and that again by extinction the soul is relaxed and moistened, being changed into corporeity.
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And he moreover says, that when the inflammation is throughout, it lives and is an animal, but being again extinct and thickened, it is turned into water and earth and corporeity.
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Now if body is the compound, the thing made up of all the required qualities plus Matter, then corporeity is nothing more than their conjunction.
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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We have thus covered our main ground, but since corporeity has been mentioned, we must consider its nature: is it the conjunction of all the qualities or is it an Idea, or Reason-Principle, whose presence in Matter constitutes a body?
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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