corporas
English
Etymology
From Middle English coperas, copereaus, corpas, corperas, corperaus, corporas, corporasse, corporaus, corporax, corporeals, corprax, from Old French corporals, corporaus, plural of corporal (“corporal”, adjective).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɔː(ɹ)pəɹəs/
Noun
corporas (plural corporases)
- (obsolete) The corporal, or communion cloth.
- c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, OCLC 8728872, lines 60–63, page 63:
- The hawke tyryd on a bone,
And in the holy place
She mutyd there a chase
Upon my corporas face.- The hawk seized and tore at a bone,
And in the holy place (altar)
She dropped a fall of dung there
Upon my corporas’s face.
- The hawk seized and tore at a bone,
- 1648, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge since the Conquest
- corporas clothes
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for corporas in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- Porcaros, sorocarp
Latin
Verb
corporās
- second-person singular present active indicative of corporō