corporeal
adjective/kɔːˈpɔːriəl/
/kɔːrˈpɔːriəl/
(formal)- that can be touched; physical rather than spiritual
- his corporeal presence
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- of or for the body
- corporeal needs
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘material’): from late Latin corporealis, from Latin corporeus ‘bodily, physical’, from corpus, corpor- ‘body’.
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