Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
corporal .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The corporal, or communion cloth.
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- noun obsolete The
corporal , orcommunion cloth .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The burse, which is simply a cover used to keep the corporal from being soiled, and which for that reason was known in Old English as a "corporas-case", is somewhat older.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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For in that great malady which had so vexed her that she lay in her bed, she arose and did her to be borne from one place to another, and did spin a fine small cloth of which she made more than fifty corporas, and sent them in fair towels of silk into divers churches in divers places of Assisi.
The Golden Legend, vol. 6 1230-1298 1900
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"corporas-case", as it was commonly called in pre-Reformation
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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