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corporality|kɔːpəˈrælɪtɪ|
Also 5 -ite, 6 -ytie, 7 -itie.
[ad. late L. corporālitās (Tertullian), f. corporāl-is corporal: see -ity. Cf. mod.F. corporalité (Bossuet).]
1. The quality of consisting of matter; material or corporeal existence; materiality.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. xxviii. (1495) 338 Sauynge the corporalite of eyther and contynuaunce of theyr substancyall partyes. 1614Raleigh Hist. World I. 7 Aristotle findeth corporality in the beames of light. 1642H. More Song of Soul ii. ii. iii. xxix, That fond grosse phansie..Of the souls corporal'tie. 1662J. Chandler Van Helmont's Oriat. 150 A Mathematicall corporality or bodiliness. 1711S. Clarke Let. to Dodwell 71 The Corporality of the Soul. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. 1464 Perhaps he..considered corporality and substantiality as identical ideas.
†b. as opposed to spirituality. Obs.
1627–77Feltham Resolves i. xix. 34 Take her as she is in her self, not dimm'd and thickned with the mists of corporality; then is she a beauty. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. iii. vi. §21 Whether the spirituality of them shall refine the rest..or the corporality, or earthliness of them, depress them.
†c. Alchemy. The gross and earthy part of anything, incapable of sublimation. Obs.
1660tr. Paracelsus' Archidoxis i. iv. 52 In that Colour is the Quintessence contained, the residue is the Corporality. 1683Salmon Doron Med. i. 310 In this color are the Potestates contained, the residue is the ‘Corporality’.
2. The quality of being embodied; embodied existence or condition.
1642H. More Song of Soul ii. i. i. xii, [They] deeply doubt if corporalitie were stroy'd Whether that inward first vitalitie Could then subsist. 1691E. Taylor tr. Behmen's Theos. Philos. 358 The Precious Gold of Heavenly Corporality. 1847Blackw. Mag. LXI. 755 Until certified of his corporality, [we] shall set down the gentleman..as a member of an imaginary clan.
b. concr. Bodily substance or organism, body.
1841Fraser's Mag. XXIII. 217, I would much rather have repaired their minds with learning..than their corporalities with drugs.
†3. Corporate quality or organization of a society, town, etc. Obs.
1556Corpor. of Axbridge in 3rd Rep. Com. Hist. MSS. (1872) 303/2 The same yere oure Corporalytie was granted.
†b. concr. A body of men; a corporation. Obs.
1603[see corporalty]. 1641Milton Reform. 5 Citations..to be served by a corporality of griffonlike promoters and apparitors.
4. pl. Corporal or bodily matters; things pertaining to bodily wants, etc. Cf. temporalities.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) VIII. x. 52 Motives of convenience, or mere corporalities, as I may say. |