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Definition of Corpuses
1. corpus [n] - See also: corpus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corpuses
Literary usage of Corpuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Trial of Theodore Parker: For the "misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil by Theodore Parker (1855)
""If habeas corpuses are to be taken out after that manner, 1 wUl have an indictment
sent to the United States Grand-Jury against the person who applies for ..."
2. The Microcosm of London, Or, London in Miniature by Rudolph Ackermann, William Henry Pyne, William Combe (1904)
"... corpuses to discharge their severall bayles, as they formerly used to do: but
now the attorneys have found out how to save so many habeas corpuses; ..."
3. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1824)
"... paucity of the books of our common law, in proportion to those written of the
civil and canon law. Oh ! how corpulent are the corpuses of both ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"They little know what work he has with his own Friends of the People; getting
them bespied, beheaded, their habeas-corpuses suspended, and his own Social ..."
5. The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625-1660 by Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Great Britain Parliament (1906)
"... stopping their Habeas corpuses, and imposing upon their estates without Act
of Parliament, &c., either by both or either House, or any Committee of both ..."
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