Cor`po*ra"tion (k˘r`p&osl;*rā"shŭn), n. [L. corporatio incarnation: cf. F. corporation corporation.] A body politic or corporate, formed and authorized by law to act as a single person, and endowed by law with the capacity of succession; a society having the capacity of transacting business as an individual.
&fist; Corporations are aggregate or sole. Corporations aggregate consist of two or more persons united in a society, which is preserved by a succession of members, either forever or till the corporation is dissolved by the power that formed it, by the death of all its members, by surrender of its charter or franchises, or by forfeiture. Such corporations are the mayor and aldermen of cities, the head and fellows of a college, the dean and chapter of a cathedral church, the stockholders of a bank or insurance company, etc. A corporation sole consists of a single person, who is made a body corporate and politic, in order to give him some legal capacities, and especially that of succession, which as a natural person he can not have. Kings, bishops, deans, parsons, and vicars, are in England sole corporations. A fee will not pass to a corporation sole without the word "successors" in the grant. There are instances in the United States of a minister of a parish seized of parsonage lands in the right of his parish, being a corporation sole, as in Massachusetts. Corporations are sometimes classified as public and private; public being convertible with municipal, and private corporations being all corporations not municipal.
Close corporation. See under Close.
Cor"po*ra`tor (k˘"p?-r?`t?r), n. A member of a corporation, esp. one of the original members.
Cor"po*ra*ture (k˘r"p?-r?-t?r), n. The state of being embodied; bodily existence. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
Cor*po"re*al (k˘r*pō"r&esl;*al), a. [L. corporeus, fr. corpus body.] Having a body; consisting of, or pertaining to, a material body or substance; material; -- opposed to spiritual or immaterial.
His omnipotence
That to corporeal substance could add
Speed almost spiritual.
Milton.
Corporeal property, such as may be seen and handled (as opposed to incorporeal, which can not be seen or handled, and exists only in contemplation). Mozley & W.
Syn. -- Corporal; bodily. See Corporal.
Cor*po"re*al*ism (-?z'm), n. Materialism. Cudworth.
Cor*po"re*al*ist (k&obreve;r*pō"r&esl;*al*&ibreve;st), n. One who denies the reality of spiritual existences; a materialist.
Some corporealists pretended . . . to make a world without a God.
Bp. Berkeley.
Cor*po`re*al"i*ty (-?l"?-t?), n.: pl. Corporealities (-t&ibreve;z). The state of being corporeal; corporeal existence.
Cor*po"re*al*ly (k&obreve;r*pō"r&esl;*al*l&ybreve;), adv. In the body; in a bodily form or manner.
Cor*po"re*al*ness (-n?s), n. Corporeality; corporeity.
Cor`po*re"i*ty (k?r`p?-r?"?-t?), n. [LL. corporeitas: cf. F. corpor&?;it&?;.] The state of having a body; the state of being corporeal; materiality.
The one attributed corporeity to God.
Bp. Stillingfleet.
Those who deny light to be matter, do not therefore deny its corporeity.
Coleridge.
Cor*por"i*fy (k?r-p?r"?-f?), v. t. [L. corpus body + -fy: cf. F. corporifier.] To embody; to form into a body. [Obs.] Boyle.
Cor"po*sant (k?r"p?-z?nt), n. [It. corpo santo holy body.] St. Elmo's fire. See under Saint.
Corps (kōr, pl. kōrz), n. sing. & pl. [F., fr. L. corpus body. See Corpse.] 1. The human body, whether living or dead. [Obs.] See Corpse, 1.
By what craft in my corps, it cometh [commences] and where.
Piers Plowman.
2. A body of men; esp., an organized division of the military establishment; as, the marine corps; the corps of topographical engineers; specifically, an army corps.
A corps operating with an army should consist of three divisions of the line, a brigade of artillery, and a regiment of cavalry.
Gen. Upton (U. S. Tactics. )