corporal

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corporal1

▶noun

• 1 a rank of non-commissioned officer in the army, above lance corporal or private first class and below sergeant.

• 2 (also ship's corporal) Brit. historical a petty officer who attended solely to police matters, under the master-at-arms.

• 3 N. Amer. a fallfish.

– origin C16: from Fr., obs. var. of caporal, from Ital. caporale, prob. based on L. corpus, corpor- ‘body (of troops)’.

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corporal2

▶adjective relating to the human body.

– derivatives
corporally adverb.

– origin ME: via OFr. from L. corporalis, from corpus, corpor- ‘body’.

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corporal3

▶noun a cloth on which the chalice and paten are placed during the celebration of the Eucharist.

– origin ME: from med. L. corporale (pallium) ‘body (cloth)’, from L. corpus, corpor- ‘body’.