corporeal

Etymology

From Middle English corporealle, equivalent to Latin corporeus + -al, from corpus (“body”); compare corporal.

adj

  1. Material; tangible; physical.
    Sometimes the attempt was made to reduce the inner to the outer world (Condillac, Mach, Avenarius, materialism); sometimes the outer to the inner world (Descartes, Berkeley, Fichte); sometimes the sphere of the absolute to the others (e.g., by trying to infer causally the essence and existence of something divine in general); sometimes the vital world to the pregivenness of the dead corporeal world (as in the empathy theory of life, espoused, among others, by Descartes and Theodor Lipps); sometimes the assumption of a co-world to a pregivenness of the own inner world of the assuming subject combined with that of an outer corporeal world (theories of analogy to and empathy with the consciousness of others); 2014, Volker Meja, Nico Stehr, Knowledge and Politics
  2. (archaic) Pertaining to the body; bodily; corporal.
    She is always diagnosing me. My corporeal health is of almost as much interest to her as my spiritual health: she is especially proprietary about my bowels. 2000, Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin

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