*corpora*

a. [ Pref. bi- + corporal. ] Having two bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + corporate. ] (Her.) Double-bodied, as a lion having one head and two bodies. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ L. concorporatus, p. p. of concorporare. ] To unite in one mass or body; to incorporate. [ Archaic. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. United in one body; incorporated. [ Archaic ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. concorporatio. ] Union of things in one mass or body. [ R. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Corporas. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Corrupted fr. F. caporal, It. caporale, fr. capo head, chief, L. caput. See Chief, and cf. Caporal. ] (Mil.) A noncommissioned officer, next below a sergeant. In the United States army he is the lowest noncommissioned officer in a company of infantry. He places and relieves sentinels. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corporal's guard, a detachment such as would be in charge of a corporal for guard duty, etc.; hence, derisively, a very small number of persons. --
Lance corporal, an assistant corporal on private's pay. Farrow. --
Ship's corporal (Naut.), a petty officer who assists the master at arms in his various duties. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. corporalis, fr. corpus body. See Corpse. ] 1. Belonging or relating to the body; bodily. “Past corporal toil.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pillories and other corporal infections. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corporal punishment (law), punishment applied to the body of the offender, including the death penalty, whipping, and imprisonment. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having a body or substance; not spiritual; material. In this sense now usually written corporeal. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

A corporal heaven . . . .where the stare are. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

What seemed corporal melted
As breath into the wind. Shak.

Syn. -- Corporal, Bodily, Corporeal. Bodily is opposed to mental; as, bodily affections. Corporeal refers to the whole physical structure or nature, of the body; as, corporeal substance or frame. Corporal, as now used, refers more to punishment or some infliction; as, corporal punishment. To speak of corporeal punishment is an error. Bodily austerities; the corporeal mold. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ LL. corporale: cf. F. corporal. See Corporal, a. ] A fine linen cloth, on which the sacred elements are consecrated in the eucharist, or with which they are covered; a communion cloth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corporal oath, a solemn oath; -- so called from the fact that it was the ancient usage for the party taking it to touch the corporal, or cloth that covered the consecrated elements. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.: pl. Corporalities [ L. corporalitas: cf. F.corporalit&unr_;. ] 1. The state of being or having a body; bodily existence; corporeality; -- opposed to spirituality. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A confraternity; a guild. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In or with the body; bodily; as, to be corporally present. Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mil.) A corporal's office. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prop. pl. of corporal. ] The corporal, or communion cloth. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. corporatus, p. p. of corporare to shape into a body, fr. corpus body. See Corpse. ] 1. Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Belonging to a corporation or incorporated body. “Corporate property.” Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. United; general; collectively one. [ 1913 Webster ]

They answer in a joint and corporate voice. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corporate member, an actual or voting member of a corporation, as distinguished from an associate or an honorary member; as, a corporate member of the American Board. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To incorporate. [ Obs. ] Stow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become incorporated. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In a corporate capacity; acting as a corporate body. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In, or as regarda, the body. Fabyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Finance) a person who purchases or attempts to purchase a controlling interest in a publicly-traded company against the wishes of the current management. such a buyout is caled a hostile takeover.
Syn. -- buyout specialist, takeover artist. [ PJC ]

n. [ L. corporatio incarnation: cf. F. corporation corporation. ] A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Corporations are aggregate or sole. Corporations aggregate consist of two or more persons united in a society, which is preserved by a succession of members, either forever or till the corporation is dissolved by the power that formed it, by the death of all its members, by surrender of its charter or franchises, or by forfeiture. Such corporations are the mayor and aldermen of cities, the head and fellows of a college, the dean and chapter of a cathedral church, the stockholders of a bank or insurance company, etc. A corporation sole consists of a single person, who is made a body corporate and politic, in order to give him some legal capacities, and especially that of succession, which as a natural person he can not have. Kings, bishops, deans, parsons, and vicars, are in England sole corporations. A fee will not pass to a corporation sole without the word “successors” in the grant. There are instances in the United States of a minister of a parish seized of parsonage lands in the right of his parish, being a corporation sole, as in Massachusetts. Corporations are sometimes classified as public and private; public being convertible with municipal, and private corporations being all corporations not municipal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Close corporation. See under Close. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A member of a corporation, esp. one of the original members. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being embodied; bodily existence. [ Obs. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Deprived of the privileges or form of a body corporate. [ Obs. ] Jas. II. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disincorporated p. pr. & vb. n. Disincorporating ] 1. To deprive of corporate powers, rights, or privileges; to divest of the condition of a corporate body. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To detach or separate from a corporation. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Separated from, or not included in, a corporation; disincorporated. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Deprivation of the rights and privileges of a corporation. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. incorporalis. See In- not, and Corporal, and cf. Incorporeal. ] Immaterial; incorporeal; spiritual. [ Obs. ] Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. incorporalitas: cf. F. incorporalité. ] Incorporeality. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Incorporeally. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. incorporatus. See In- not, and Corporate. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual. [ 1913 Webster ]

Moses forbore to speak of angles, and things invisible, and incorporate. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not incorporated; not existing as a corporation; as, an incorporate banking association. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. incorporatus, p. p. of incorporare to incorporate; pref. in- in + corporare to make into a body. See Corporate. ] Corporate; incorporated; made one body, or united in one body; associated; mixed together; combined; embodied. [ 1913 Webster ]

As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds
Had been incorporate. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A fifteenth part of silver incorporate with gold. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Incorporated p. pr. & vb. n. Incorporating ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To form into a body; to combine, as different ingredients, into one consistent mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

By your leaves, you shall not stay alone,
Till holy church incorporate two in one. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To unite with a material body; to give a material form to; to embody. [ 1913 Webster ]

The idolaters, who worshiped their images as gods, supposed some spirit to be incorporated therein. Bp. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To unite with, or introduce into, a mass already formed; as, to incorporate copper with silver; -- used with with and into. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To unite intimately; to blend; to assimilate; to combine into a structure or organization, whether material or mental; as, to incorporate provinces into the realm; to incorporate another's ideas into one's work. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Romans did not subdue a country to put the inhabitants to fire and sword, but to incorporate them into their own community. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To form into a legal body, or body politic; to constitute into a corporation recognized by law, with special functions, rights, duties and liabilities; as, to incorporate a bank, a railroad company, a city or town, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To unite in one body so as to make a part of it; to be mixed or blended; -- usually followed by with. [ 1913 Webster ]

Painters' colors and ashes do better incorporate will oil. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

He never suffers wrong so long to grow,
And to incorporate with right so far
As it might come to seem the same in show. Daniel. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. United or combined together to form in one body. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Formed into a corporation and registered with a government body as such; made a legal entity. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ L. incorporatio: cf. F. incorporation. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of incorporating, or the state of being incorporated. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The union of different ingredients in one mass; mixture; combination; synthesis. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The union of something with a body already existing; association; intimate union; assimilation; as, the incorporation of conquered countries into the Roman republic. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Law) (a) The act of creating a corporation. (b) A body incorporated; a corporation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Incorporating or tending to incorporate; as, the incorporative languages (as of the Basques, North American Indians, etc. ) which run a whole phrase into one word. [ 1913 Webster ]

History demonstrates that incorporative unions are solid and permanent; but that a federal union is weak. W. Belsham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of a number of persons who gets a company incorporated; one of the original members of a corporation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A lancepesade. [ PJC ]

2. An enlisted member of the United States Marine Corps ranking between a private first class and a corporal. [ PJC ]

3. The lowest rank of corporal; -- a term used in the British military. RHUD [ PJC ]

. A corporation consisting of a person or body of persons invested with some of the qualities of an artificial person, though not expressly incorporated, esp. the official of certain municipal divisions such as counties, schools districts, and the towns of some States of the United States, certain church officials, as a churchwarden, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ or sometimes }. A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To incorporate again. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Pref. trans- + corporate. ] To transmigrate. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]