corporation, n.f., corporation, corporate body.
corporéité, n.f., corporeity.
corporel, -le, adj., corporal, corporeal, bodily.
corporellement (-mān), adv., corporally, bodily.
corporifier, v.a., to embody, to form into a body.
corps (kor), n.m., body; person; fellow; creature; substance, thickness, consistence; company, society, commonalty, college; main point; barrel (of pumps); caudex (of roots); (of wine, of writing, of sovereigns, of musical instruments, of wearing apparel) body; corps, set of men; (print.) depth, body, of a letter; shell (of a house, a pulley). — mort; dead body. — morts; (nav.) moorings. — glorieux; glorified body. Un drôle de —; a queer fellow, a queer fish. Se tuer le — et l’âme; to work one’s self to death. Répondre — pour —; to be answerable for a person. Faire — neuf; to take a new lease of life. Il fait bon marché de son —; he makes himself very cheap; he exposes himself unnecessarily to danger. Il faut voir ce que cet homme a dans le —; we must see what stuff this man is made of. Enlever un homme comme un — saint; (prov.) to kidnap a man. Gagner son pain à la sueur de son —; to earn one’s bread by the sweat of one’s brow. Tomber rudement sur le — à quelqu’un; to speak in offensive terms of any one. Être séparés — et biens; to be separated (mensâ et thoro). C’est un pauvre —; he is a poor weak fellow. C’est un — de fer que cet homme; that man is made of iron. Passer son épée au travers du — à quelqu’un; to run any one through the body. Il a le diable au —; he is a devil of a fellow. — de bâtiment; main building. — de logis; detached building. — de cheminée; chimney-stack. Le — du délit; substance, main proof, of an offense (corpus delicti). Un vin qui a du —; a full-bodied wine. Prendre du —; to grow stout, fat. Le — du clergé; the body of the clergy. Les — de métiers; the trades’ companies. Ils font — à part; they are a separate body. Esprit de —; spirit of party; brotherhood in arms. Un — d’infanterie; a body of foot-soldiers. Garde du —; a life-guard. Un — de garde; a guard-house; watch-house; round-house. — à —; hand to hand. À — perdu; headlong; desperately. A bras-le-corps; by the waist. Saisir quelqu’un à bras-le-—; to seize any one round the waist. N’avoir rien dans le —; to have taken no food; to be a person of no pluck. À son — défendant; reluctantly, in one’s own defense. Le vaisseau a sombré — et biens; the vessel foundered with all hands.
corpulence, n.f., corpulence, corpulency; stoutness. Un homme de petite —; a stoutish man.
corpulent, -e, adj., corpulent, stout.
corpusculaire, adj., corpuscular.
corpuscule, n.m., corpuscule or corpuscle.