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Corporeal vs Physic - What's the difference?

corporeal | physic |

As adjectives the difference between corporeal and physic

is that corporeal is material; tangible; physical while physic is relating to or concerning existent materials; physical.

As a noun physic is

(countable) a medicine or drug, especially a cathartic or purgative.

As a verb physic is

to cure or heal; to treat or administer medicine, especially to purge.

corporeal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Material; tangible; physical.
    • His omnipotence That to corporeal substance could add Speed almost spiritual. - Milton
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * (of the body) bodily, corporal

    Antonyms

    * ethereal * incorporeal * insubstantial * intangible * spiritual

    Derived terms

    * corporeality

    Anagrams

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    physic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * physick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Relating to or concerning existent materials; physical.

    • Noun

  • (countable) A medicine or drug, especially a cathartic or purgative.
  • (uncountable) The art or profession of healing disease; medicine.
  • (obsolete) A physician.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Derived terms

    * physician

    Verb

  • To cure or heal; to treat or administer medicine, especially to purge.