Corporeal

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: cor=po=re=al

CIDE DICTIONARY

Corporeal, a. [L. corporeus, fr. corpus body.].

 Having a body; consisting of, or pertaining to, a material body or substance; material; -- opposed to spiritual or immaterial.  [1913 Webster]
"His omnipotence
That to corporeal substance could add
Speed almost spiritual."  [1913 Webster]

Corporeal property, such as may be seen and handled (as opposed to incorporeal, which can not be seen or handled, and exists only in contemplation). Mozley & W.

Syn. -- Corporal; bodily. See Corporal.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Corporeal, adj.
1 bodily, physical, material, esp. as distinct from spiritual (cf. CORPORAL(2)).
2 Law consisting of material objects.

Derivative

corporeality n. corporeally adv.

Etymology

LL corporealis f. L corporeus f. corpus -oris body

THESAURUS

Corporeal

bodily, carnal, corporal, earthly, fleshly, gross, hylic, material, materiate, nonspiritual, objective, phenomenal, physical, secular, sensible, somatic, substantial, tangible, temporal, unspiritual, worldly

ROGET THESAURUS

Corporeal

Substantiality

N substantiality, hypostasis, person, being, thing, object, article, item, something, a being, an existence, creature, body, substance, flesh and blood, stuff, substratum, matter, corporeity, element, essential nature, groundwork, materiality, substantialness, vital part, world, plenum, substantive, substantial, hypostatic, personal, bodily, tangible, corporeal, substantially, bodily, essentially.

Materiality

N materiality, materialness, corporeity, corporality, substantiality, substantialness, flesh and blood, plenum, physical condition, matter, body, substance, brute matter, stuff, element, principle, parenchyma, material, substratum, hyle, corpus, pabulum, frame, object, article, thing, something, still life, stocks and stones, materials, physics, somatology, somatics, natural philosophy, experimental philosophy, physicism, physical science, philosophie positive, materialism, materialist, physicist, somatism, somatist, material, bodily, corporeal, corporal, physical, somatic, somatoscopic, sensible, tangible, ponderable, palpable, substantial, objective, impersonal, nonsubjective, neuter, unspiritual, materialistic.

Animality

N animality, animal life, animation, animality, animalization, animalness, corporeal nature, human system, breath, flesh, flesh and blood, physique, strength, fleshly, human, corporeal.