1. Excessive fatness; fleshiness; obesity.
2. Thickness; density; compactness. [Obs.] The heaviness and corpulency of water requiring a great force to divide it. Ray.
CORPULENT Cor"pu*lent (-p-lent), a. Etym: [L. corpulentus, fr. corpus: cf. F. corpulent. See Corpse.]
1. Very fat; obese.
2. Solid; gross; opaque. [Obs.] Holland.
Syn.
— Stout; fleshy; bulky; obese. See Stout.
CORPULENTLY
Cor"pu*lent*ly, adv.
Defn: In a corpulent manner.
CORPUS
Cor"pus (-ps), n.; pl. Corpora (-p. Etym: [L.]
Defn: A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing. Corpus callosum (k; pl. Corpora callosa (-s Etym: [NL., callous body] (Anat.), the great band of commissural fibers uniting the cerebral hemispheries. See Brain. — Corpus Christi (kr Etym: [L., body of Christ] (R. C. Ch.), a festival in honor of the eucharist, observed on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday. — Corpus Christi cloth. Same as Pyx cloth, under Pyx. — Corpus delicti (d Etym: [L., the body of the crime] (Law), the substantial and fundamental fact of the comission of a crime; the proofs essential to establish a crime. — Corpus luteum (l; pl. Corpora lutea (-. Etym: [NL., luteous body] (Anat.), the reddish yellow mass which fills a ruptured Grafian follicle in the mammalian ovary. — Corpus striatum (str; pl. Corpora striata (-t. Etym: [NL., striate body] (Anat.), a ridge in the wall of each lateral ventricle of the brain.