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Corps   /kɔr/  /kɔrz/   Listen
noun
Corps  n.  
1.
The human body, whether living or dead. (Obs.) See Corpse, 1. "By what craft in my corps, it cometh (commences) and where."
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."
3.
A body or code of laws. (Obs.) "The whole corps of the law."
4.
(Eccl.) The land with which a prebend or other ecclesiastical office is endowed. (Obs.) "The prebendaries over and above their reserved rents have a corps."
5.
In some countries of Europe, a form of students' social society binding the members to strict adherence to certain student customs and its code of honor; Ger. spelling usually korps.
Army corps, or (French) Corps d'armée, a body containing two or more divisions of a large army, organized as a complete army in itself.
Corps de logis, the principal mass of a building, considered apart from its wings.
Corps diplomatique, the body of ministers or envoys accredited to a government.





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... for land defence had been made much more effective since the twentieth century began. The permanent militia had been largely increased; engineer, medical, army-service, and ordnance corps had been organized or extended; rifle associations and cadet corps had been encouraged; new artillery armament had been provided; reserves of ammunition and equipment had been built up; a central training-camp had {298} been established; the period and ...
— The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier - A Chronicle of Our Own Time • Oscar D. Skelton
... study, where leisure hours are profitably employed, showing that the stimulus of those early debates is still felt. His voice is often heard in public assemblies, and he now takes his turn, with a corps of divines and lawyers, in editing a religious magazine. Not one of these young men had wealth, or titled ancestry, or superior advantages, to aid them; and all will say that the debates of their society exerted a powerful influence over ...
— The Bobbin Boy - or, How Nat Got His learning • William M. Thayer
... n'est pas plus assuree que celle du corps; et quoique l'on paraisse eloigne des passions, on n'est pas moins en danger de s'y laisser emporter que de tomber malade quand on se porte ...
— Alice, or The Mysteries, Book III • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... A whole corps diplomatique and another shipful of abstract philosophers, principally Scotchmen, were immediately ordered off to the West; and shortly after, to render their first principles still more effective and their administrative arrangements still ...
— The Voyage of Captain Popanilla • Benjamin Disraeli
... receyue the sacrament stonding / other sittinge / other kneling. And if in some places whilest the bretheren do communicat / a place of the scripture be redd / or some psalmes be song of the people / or other songes of thankes geuing. Nether is it any great matter / when a corps is caried to the buriall / whether that men do followe the hearce holding their peace / or singing of psalmes / or suche other thinges as maye edifie them that do stande by. These thinges are to be lefte so free that in the churches suche maie be vsed / as shall seme most meete ...
— A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful • Peter Martyr


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