mindmap root((CORP)) corporeal Having or relating to a physical body; substantial.
🌱In paintings, angels usually look very much like corporeal beings, often with actual feathered wings. 🌳In various religions, including Christianity, corporeal existence is often called the opposite of spiritual existence, and corporeal existence, unlike spiritual existence, is often said to be contaminated with evil. The word is also often used by philosophers, especially when considering the nature of reality. For lawyers, corporeal describes physical property such as houses or cars, as opposed to something valuable but nonphysical like a good reputation. corpulent Having a large, bulky body; obese.
🌱Squire Jenkins had often been described as "stout" or "portly," but more recently the word his acquaintances were using was usually "corpulent," or even "fat." 🌳The Duchess of Windsor may have said that you can never be too rich or too thin, but that's a rather modern point of view. In earlier times in Europe, being overweight was considered a sign of wealth and well-being, as demonstrated by the corpulence of many European kings. Still today, corpulence is thought to be superior to thinness in some of the world's cultures. But corpulent and corpulence are less often used than they once were, and we're now probably more likely to say "obese" and "obesity." corporal Relating to or affecting the body.
🌱She was reminded that, in the public-school system, shaking a child was now regarded as unacceptable corporal punishment. 🌳The adjective corporal today usually appears in the phrase corporal punishment, which means "bodily punishment." This used to include such acts as mutilation, branding, imprisonment, and even death. But today execution comes under the separate heading of "capital punishment," which originally involved losing your head （capit- meaning "head"）. Milder forms of corporal punishment are used by American parents, and were once common in schools as well. Corporal is occasionally used in other ways; in the traditional church, the "corporal works of mercy" include seven helpful acts such as sheltering the homeless and burying the dead. Corporal as a military rank actually comes from caporal—which has the same root as capital. incorporate 1、 To blend or combine into something already existing to form one whole.
2、 To form or form into a corporation.
🌱The new edition incorporates many suggestions and corrections received by the author from his readers. 🌳From its roots, incorporate means basically "add into a body" or "form into a body." So, for example, a chef might decide to incorporate a couple of new ingredients into an old recipe, and then might incorporate that new item into the restaurant's dinner menu. The restaurant itself was probably incorporated at the beginning, and so is now a corporation—that is, a "body" that's legally allowed to act like a single person in certain ways, even if it may have many individual employees. As you can see, the two meanings turn out to be fairly different.