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Definition of Corpse

1. Noun. The dead body of a human being. "Honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"

Definition of Corpse

1. n. A human body in general, whether living or dead; -- sometimes contemptuously.

Definition of Corpse

1. Noun. a dead body ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive slang of an actor) to lose control during a performance and laugh uncontrollably ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Corpse

1. a dead body [n -S]

Medical Definition of Corpse

1. Synonym: cadaver. Origin: L. Corpus, body (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Corpse

Literary usage of Corpse

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"By appointing relays of monks to succeed one another orderly provision was made that the corpse should never be left without prayer. ..."

2. The Manners & Customs of the Modern Egyptians by Edward William Lane (1908)
"Some men were lately bearing the corpse of a ... They were all much perplexed ; but being as obstinate as the BIER USED FOR THE CONVEYANCE OF THB corpse OF ..."

3. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1901)
"corpse CANDLES, says Grose, are very common appearances in the counties of Cardigan, Carmarthen, and Pembroke, and also in some other parts of Wales ..."

4. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"... corpse of- King Charles to be substituted in the punishment and ignominy designed forthe Usurper'i Body. MS. Amongst other Papers, the following MS. was ..."

5. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, James Nichols (1842)
"Under all these, he lit on a corpse, whose coffin above was consumed, ... Some said it was the corpse of Mr. Pountney in Soper-lane, a merchant, ..."

6. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, William Caxton (1903)
"Then these four knights departed and came to the barget and went in ; and there they found the fairest corpse lying in a rich bed, and a poor man sitting in ..."

7. The Civil War in Song and Story: 1860-1865 by Frank Moore (1889)
"... that this could be no other than the corpse of that officer ... satisfied himself of the identity of the corpse by passing his hand over it. ..."

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