corpulencyn.
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the world > life > the body > bodily height > tallness > [noun] > and broadness
corpulency1545
1545 T. Raynald in tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. sig. G.iiiv Of equall corpulencye or byggenesse.
1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 597 The soule of a great man is not greater then the soule of a little man, in regard of corpulency.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xxvii. 168 The dog..for the keeping of the farme, must be of grosse and great corpulencie.
2. † b. concrete. Obsolete.
a. = corpulence n. 2.
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the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [noun] > fat or plump shape or physique > state of having
fatnessc1000
greasea1340
corsiousnessc1440
fleshiness1541
plumpness1545
corporateness1547
fogginess1547
fleshliness1552
corpulency1577
corpulence1581
corsiness1587
fullness1599
obesity1611
pinguitude1623
obeseness1653
aletude1656
portliness1658
eventriqueness1667
rotundity1684
fat1726
rotundness1727
bloatedness1732
embonpoint1751
roundness1763
repleteness1770
plumpitude1828
corporosity1837
stoutness1838
crumb1843
plumptitude1843
roundedness1849
chubbiness1850
adiposeness1868
roundliness1870
buxomness1875
bloat1905
tubbiness1906
poundage1915
overweight1917
endomorphy1940
plumpishness1947
pudge1967
morbid obesity1969
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Four Bks. Husb. (1586) 896 The Drones..by reason of unwieldinesse, or corpulency of their bodies.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. x. 204 They are generally fat..and ranck of the savours which attend upon sluttish corpulency . View more context for this quotation
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1783 II. 450 Talking of a man who was grown very fat, so as to be incommoded with corpulency.
1858 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) III. 257 The king's health was growing visibly weaker; his corpulency was increasing.
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1641 J. Milton Animadversions 66 Wipe your fat corpulencies out of our light.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun]
bodiness1398
corporality1398
corporalness1398
corpulentness1398
materiality1570
bodiliness1587
materialness1587
corpulency1594
corpulencea1625
corporature1647
crassities1659
corporeity1664
bodiship1674
physicalness1727
physicality1827
grossness1862
1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits xii. 191 This meat [Manna] had no corpulencie to fatten them.
1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. viii. 54 Flame..being mixed with smoake and other corpulency.
1649 H. Hammond Christians Obligations vii. 180 Men phansie God μεθ' ὕλης, with matter and corpulency.
1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 109 The heaviness and corpulency of the Water.
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