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n. - A noncommissioned officer in the army or airforce or marines adj. - Possessing or existing in bodily form; Affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit.

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  • The men remain seated, the corporal in charge rising in his place at the head of the table.
  • What seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind
  • Some of them, we had to use what you call corporal punishment.
  • Moreover, Why is the Spirit or Soul so passible in corporal Pains?
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  • After the sTance, the "corporal" (the rank below sergeant in the army) felt a very "corporeal" (something real or bodily) exhaustion.
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