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单词 corpusculum
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corpusculumn.

Forms: Plural corpuscula.
Etymology: Latin; diminutive of corpus body; formerly used instead of corpuscle n.; also in Italian form corpusculo, and with irregular plural in -a's.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: corˈpusculum.
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a. = corpuscle n. 1.
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1653 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis (rev. ed.) ii. 71 Cacexicate their pretty Corpusculums.
1674 W. Petty Disc. before Royal Soc. Ep. Ded. sig. A5 Atoms (such, whereof perhaps a Million do not make up one visible Corpusculum).
1721 R. Bradley Philos. Acct. Wks. Nature 154 Such Effluvia or Corpuscula's, as rise from the Earth or Waters.
1822 C. Lamb in London Mag. Mar. 283/2 The agreeable levities..the twinkling corpuscula which should irradiate a right friendly epistle.
b. Botany (plural). The central cells of the archegonia of Gymnosperms, within which the germinal vesicles are produced: so named by R. Brown who discovered them in 1834.
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1844 R. Brown Annals Nat. Hist. XIII. 373 My areolæ or corpuscula, which he denominates large cells in the embryo-sac or albumen.
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 434.
2. A small body of men; a small ecclesiastical body. Obsolete.
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1653 J. Gauden Hieraspistes Pref. sig. b2 Inamoured with their (Corpusculo's) the little new bodies of their gathered Churches.
1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα 43 These new corpusculas of separate churches.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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