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Corporal

noun

A noncommissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marines.

adjective

Affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit. Synonyms: bodily, corporeal, somatic. "A corporal defect" , "Corporeal suffering" , "A somatic symptom or somatic illness"

Possessing or existing in bodily form. Synonyms: bodied, corporate, embodied, incarnate. "An incarnate spirit" , "'corporate' is an archaic term"

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... spectators did not submit to this fine without a struggle. Jeremiah Banks wrote to Williamson on September 16, 1655: "At the playhouse this week many were put to rout by the soldiers and had broken crowns; the corporal would have been entrapped had he not been vigilant."[514] And in the Weekly Intelligencer, September 11-18, we read: "It never fared worse with the spectators than at this present, for those who had monies paid their five shillings apiece; those who had none, to satisfy their forfeits, ...

— Shakespearean Playhouses - A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration • Joseph Quincy Adams

... that, and I know too the difference between a Corporal and a Company Commander. I know an officer when I see him. But a brass hat don't ...

— To Him That Hath - A Novel Of The West Of Today • Ralph Connor

... is Cassidy—Corporal Terence Cassidy, of 'M' Division, Royal Northwest Mounted Police. Is ...

— The Country Beyond - A Romance of the Wilderness • James Oliver Curwood

... idea of penitentiary and the Arabs of Bombay call it "Al-Bistan" (the Garden) because the court contains a few trees and shrubs. And with them a garden always suggests an idea of Paradise. There are indeed only two efficacious forms of punishment all the world over, corporal for the poor and fines for the rich, the latter ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton

... condition of the peasantry in this region compares favourably with former times, but she admits that they are still miserably overworked and underpaid. They are no longer legally obliged to submit to corporal punishment, nor can they be forced to live where they were born, and as they emigrate in large numbers, scarcity of labour has brought about slightly improved conditions for those remaining. But a man's wage is still a mark a day in summer and ...

— Home Life in Germany • Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick

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