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corporeity|kɔːpəˈriːɪtɪ|
Also 7 -iety, -ity.
[ad. med.L. corporeitās, f. corpore-us: see corporeal and -ity. Cf. F. corporéité.]
1. The being of the nature of body; the quality of being, or having, a material body.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. i. ii, These paradoxes of their [spirits'] power, corporeity, mortality, taking of shapes. 1677Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. ii. 55 The Notion of a Spirit, or substance void of corporeity. 1693South Serm. II. 115 God..is as void of Passion, or Affection, as he is of Quantity, or Corporeity. 1836I. Taylor Phys. Th. Another Life 30 It is probable that sensation is the result of corporeity. 1865Mill Exam. Hamilton 358 Corporeity, life, rationality, and any other attributes of man.
b. concr. Bodily substance.
1647H. More Song of Soul ii. iii. iii. xxvii, How one Form may Inact a various Corporeity. 1660R. Coke Justice Vind. 12 The outward Senses apprehend only the corporiety or substance of things represented unto them. 1862Sat. Rev. XIV. 283/2 Mind and matter, spirit and corporeity. 1884Plumptre Spirits in Prison xvi. (1885) 400 Imagining a subtle attenuated corporeity as investing the soul.
c. Bodily personality; body, person. colloq.
1865E. Burritt Walk Land's End 74 The very physical corporeity of a good and pure man commands respect and reverence. 1880World of Cant xl. (1885) 313 The dripping corporeity of the saturated saints.
†2. Earthliness; fleshliness; carnality. Obs.
1653H. More Conject. Cabbal. (1713) 50 Moses, having to deal with such Terrestrial Spirits, Sons of Sense and Corporeity. 1681Glanvill Sadducismus i. (1726) 85 Their Imagination is not sufficiently defecated..from the Filth and unclean Tinctures of Corpority.
3. Material or physical nature or state. † Sometimes = Quantity of matter, density (obs.).
1664Power Exp. Philos. iii. ii. 155 An incomparable eviction of the Corporeity of Magneticall Effluviums. 1673Phil. Trans. VIII. 6103 Whether the Corporeity of Light would be in hast determin'd by meer Ratiocinations. 1750tr. Leonardus' Mirr. Stones 17 The two elements, namely earth and water, seem to have a greater corporeity or density than the other two elements. 1880Fortn. Rev. Apr. 483 Newton..pointed out that his views of colours were entirely independent of his belief in the corporeity of light. |