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Adjective
corporeal (comparative more corporeal, superlative most corporeal)
- Material; tangible; physical.
- ✤ His omnipotence That to corporeal substance could add Speed almost spiritual.1
- ✤ She is always diagnosing me. My corporeal health is of almost as much interest to her as my spiritual health: she is especially proprietary about my bowels.2
- ✤ Sometimes the attempt was made to reduce the inner to the outer world (Condillac, Mach, Avenarius, materialism); sometimes the outer to the inner world (Descartes, Berkeley, Fichte); sometimes the sphere of the absolute to the others (e.g., by trying to infer causally the essence and existence of something divine in general); sometimes the vital world to the pregivenness of the dead corporeal world (as in the empathy theory of life, espoused, among others, by Descartes and Theodor Lipps); sometimes the assumption of a co-world to a pregivenness of the own inner world of the assuming subject combined with that of an outer corporeal world (theories of analogy to and empathy with the consciousness of others);3
- (archaic) Pertaining to the body; bodily; corporal.
Etymology
From Middle English corporealle, equivalent to Latin corporeus + -al, from corpus (“body”); compare corporal.
Pronunciation
- (rhotic) IPA: /kɔːɹˈpɔːɹiəl/
- Audio (Southern England): 🔊
- (non-rhotic) IPA: /kɔːˈpɔːɹiəl/
- Rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
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1667, John Milton, “”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a] nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a] nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC: ↩
2000, Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, page 373: ↩
2014, Volker Meja, Nico Stehr, Knowledge and Politics: ↩
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