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noun

Corps n.

1.

The human body, whether living or dead. (Obs.) See Corpse, 1. "By what craft in my corps, it cometh (commences) and where."

2.

A body of men; esp., an organized division of the military establishment; as, the marine corps; the corps of topographical engineers; specifically, an army corps. "A corps operating with an army should consist of three divisions of the line, a brigade of artillery, and a regiment of cavalry."

3.

A body or code of laws. (Obs.) "The whole corps of the law."

4.

(Eccl.) The land with which a prebend or other ecclesiastical office is endowed. (Obs.) "The prebendaries over and above their reserved rents have a corps."

5.

In some countries of Europe, a form of students' social society binding the members to strict adherence to certain student customs and its code of honor; Ger. spelling usually korps.

Army corps, or (French) Corps d'armée, a body containing two or more divisions of a large army, organized as a complete army in itself.

Corps de logis, the principal mass of a building, considered apart from its wings.

Corps diplomatique, the body of ministers or envoys accredited to a government.

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... apart. The empire builder—engaged in conquering and appropriating territory and in subjugating peoples—must have not only the force necessary to set up the empire, but also the force requisite to maintain it. Battleships and army corps are as essential to empires as mortar is to a brick wall. They are the expression of the organized might by which the ...

— The American Empire • Scott Nearing

... the abilities and deficiencies of his chief. [Footnote: Hartsuff was appointed brigadier-general of volunteers in the next year and was severely wounded at Antietam, after which he was made major-general and commanded the Twenty-third Army Corps in Burnside's campaign of East Tennessee.] He was a large man, of heavy frame; his face was broad, and his bald head, tapering high, gave a peculiar pyramidal appearance to his figure. He was systematic and accurate in administrative work, patient and insistent ...

— Military Reminiscences of the Civil War V1 • Jacob Dolson Cox

... 10,000 German dead. The French staff estimated that 60,000 German soldiers had been put out of action. The German staff admitted they had lost more men in this action than in the campaign in East Prussia against the Russians, where fourteen German army corps were engaged. The French lost less ...

— The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) - Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes • Francis J. Reynolds, Allen L. Churchill, and Francis Trevelyan

... know all about it presently, for we are going to conquer it. They say in the camp that we shall probably enter London either next Wednesday evening or else on the Thursday morning. We are to have a week for plundering the town, and then one army corps is to take possession of Scotland and another ...

— Uncle Bernac - A Memory of the Empire • Arthur Conan Doyle

... a military apparatus which had been put together at home with much care and thought, and which had never yet been seen in warfare. Its designers and constructors were proud of it and they looked forward with confidence to its successful working. The apparatus was the British Army Corps. It was taken to pieces as soon as it reached South Africa; but fortunately the ties, ligaments, and braces which held it together yielded to slight pressure and little difficulty was experienced in resolving it into its constituent elements. The more important of these were despatched to Natal ...

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