Corporeal vs Corporation - What's the difference?
corporeal | corporation |
Material; tangible; physical.
Of or pertaining to the body; bodily.
* {{quote-book
, year=2000
, author=Margaret Atwood
, title=The Blind Assassin
, passage=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.}}
(archaic) Corporal.
A group of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members.
*
, title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 In Fascist Italy, a joint association of employers' and workers' representatives.
(slang) A protruding belly; a paunch.
* 1918 , (Katherine Mansfield), ‘Prelude’, Selected Stories , Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 91:
* 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 316:
As an adjective corporeal
is material; tangible; physical.As a noun corporation is
a group of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members.corporeal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- His omnipotence That to corporeal substance could add Speed almost spiritual. - Milton
Synonyms
* (of the body) bodily, corporalAntonyms
* ethereal * incorporeal * insubstantial * intangible * spiritualDerived terms
* corporealityAnagrams
*corporation
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.}}
- 'You'd be surprised,' said Stanley, as though this were intensely interesting, 'at the number of chaps at the club who have got a corporation .'
- He was a big chap with a corporation already, and a flat face rather like Dora's, and he had a thin black moustache.