Nor could our nobles hope their bold attempt, Who ruin'd crowns, would coronets exempt. Dryden. Peers and dukes, and all their sweeping train, And garters, stars, and coronets, appear. Pope. 9. An ornamental headdress, in poetical language. The rest was drawn into a coronet of gold, richly set with pearl. Sidney. Milton. Under a coronet his flowing hair, The cruel corp'ral whisper'd in my car, Gay. CORPORAL of a Ship. An officer that hath the charge of setting the watches and sentries, and relieving them; who sees that all the soldiers and sailors keep their arms neat and clean, and teaches them how to use them. He has a mate Harris. under him. CO'RPORAL. adj. [corporel, Fr. corpus, 1. Relating to the body; belonging to the To relief of lazars and weak age, Shakspeare. Beasts enjoy greater sensual pleasures, and feel fewer corporal pains; and are utter strangers to all those anxious and tormenting thoughts which perpetually haunt and disquiet mankind. Atterbury. 2. Material; not spiritual. In the present language, when body is used philosophically in opposition to spirit, the word corporeal is used, as, a corporeal being; but otherwise corporal. Corporeal is, having a body; corporal, relating to the body. This distinction seems not ancient. Whither are they vanish'd? Into the air; and what seem'd corporal Melted, as breath, into the wind. Shakspeare. And from these corporal nutriments, perhaps, Your bodies may at last turn all to spirit. Milt. CORPORALITY. n. s. [from corporal.] The quality of being imbodied. If this light be not spiritual, yet it approacheth nearest unto spirituality; and if it have any corporality, then, of all others, the most subtile and pure. Raleigh's History. CO'RPORALLY. adv. [from "corporal.] Bodily. The sun is corporally conjoined with basiliscus. Brezn. CORPORATE. adj. [from corpus, Lat.] 1. United in a body or community; en abled to act in legal processes as an individual. Breaking forth like a sudden tempest, he over-run all Munster and Connaught, "defacing and utterly subverting all corporate towns that were not strongly walled. Spenser on Ireland. The nobles of Athens being not at this time a corporate assembly, therefore the resentment of the commons was usually turned against parSwift. ticular persons. 2. General; united. They answer in a joint and corperate voice, Shakspeare. That now they are at fall. CO'RPORATENESS. n. s. [from corporate.] The state of a body corporate; a comDict. munity. CORPORATION. n. s. [from corpus, Lat.] A body politick, authorized by the king's charter to have a common seal, one head officer or more, and members, able, by their common consent, to grant or receive, in law, any thing within the compass of their charter; even as one man may do by law all things, that by law he is not forbidden; and bindeth the successors, as a single man binds his Corvell. executor or heir. Of angels we are not to consider only what they are, and do, in regard of their own being; but that also which concerneth them, as they are linked into a kind of corporation amongst themHooker. selves, and of society with men. Of this we find some foot-steps in our law, The swiftness of those circles attribute, God being supposed to be a pure spirit, cannot On the young gnat, or new engender'd fly.Prior. 2. It is used by Swift inaccurately for corporal. one. I am not in a condition to make a true step even on Aimsbury Downs; and I declare, that a corporeal false step is worse than a political Swift. CORPORE'ITY. n. s. [from corporeus, Lat.] Materiality; the quality of being imbodied; the state of having a body; bodiliness. Since philosophy affirmeth, that we are middle substances between the soul and the body, they must admit of some corporeity, which supposeth Brown. weight or gravity. It is the saying of divine Plato, that man is nature's horizon, dividing betwixt the upper hemisphere of immaterial intellects, and this lower of corporcity. Glanville's Scepsis. bulk. We say it is a fleshy stile, when there is much periphrases, and circuit of words; and when, with more than enough, it grows fat and corpulent. Ben Jonson's Discoveries. Excess of nourishment is hurtful; for it maketh the child corpulent, and growing in breadth rather than in height. Baron. CORPUSCLE. n. s. [corpusculum, Lat.] A small body; a particle of matter; an atom; a little fragment. It will add much to our satisfaction, if those forpuscles can be discovered with microscopes. Newton. Who knows what are the figures of the little corpuscles that compose and distinguish different bodies? Watts's Log CORPUSCULAR. adj. [from cor CORPUSCULA'RIAN.) pusculum, Latin. Relating to bodies; comprising bodies. It is the distinguishing epithet of the philosophy, which attempts the rational solution of all physical appearances by the action of one body upon another. As to natural philosophy, I do not expect to see any principles proposed, more compre hensive and intelligible than the corpuscular or mechanical. This may be said, that the modern corps larians talk, in most things, more inteingly than the peripateticks. Beatley The mechanical or corpuscular philosophy, though peradventure the eldest, as well a best in the world, had lain dead for many in contempt and oblivion. Baby CO'RRACLE. See CORRICLE. To CORRA'DE. v. a. [corrado, Lat.] To rub off; to wear away by frequent rab bing; to scrape together. CORRADIATION. n. s. [con and radu, Latin.] A conjunction of rays in one point. The impression of colour worketh not but by a cone of direct beams, or right lines, where the basis is in the object, and the vertical p in the eye; so as there is a cerradiation, d conjunction of beams. Baron's Nat. His. To CORRECT. v. a. [corrigo, correctum, Latin.] 1. To punish; to chastise; to discipline Sad accidents, and a state of affliction, is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and inte rupts the confidence of sinning. After he has once been corrected for a be, you must be sure never after to pardon it in him. Locke on Edesten Children being to be restrained by the parents only in vicious things, a look or nod only ought to correct them when they do amiss. Lect. 2. To amend; to take away faults in writings, life, or things. This is a defect in the first make of sont men's minds, which can scarce ever be arrati afterwards, either by learning or age. Bart Correcting Nature, from what actually she is in individuals, to what she ought to be, and what she was created. I writ, because it amused me; I arrested, decause it was as pleasant to me to correct as to write. Pope's Prem The mind may cool, and be at leisure to attend to its domestick concern: to consider what h wants to be corrected, and what inclination to be subdued. 3. To obviate the qualities of one ingre dient by another, or by any method of preparation. O happy mixture! wherein things contrary át so qualify and correct the one the danger of other's excess, that neither boldness can mikr us presume, as long as we are kept under w the sense of our own wretchedness; nor, wise we trust in the mercy of God through Cert Jesus, fear be able to tyrannize over us. H As, in habitual gout or stone, The only thing that can be done, Is to correct your drink and diet, And keep the inward foe in quiet. Prist. In cases of acidity, water is the proper drask its quality of relaxing may be cerrected by banding it with some animal substances; as ivory a hartshorn. Arbutust on Alisali. We are all but children here under the great master of the family; and he is pleased, by hopes and fears, by mercies and corrections, to instruct Watts. us in virtue. One fault was too great lenity to her servants, to whom she gave good counsel, but too gentle Arbuthnot. correction. 2. Alteration to a better state; the act of taking away faults; amendment. Another poet, in another age, may take the same liberty with my writings; if, at least, they live long enough to deserve correction. Dryden. 3. That which is substituted in the place of any thing wrong. Corrections or improvements should be adjoined, by way of note or commentary, in their Watts. proper places. Reprehension; animadversion. They proceed with judgment and ingenuity, establishing their assertions not only with great solidity, but submitting them also unto the corBrown. rection of future discovery. 5. Abatement of noxious qualities, by the addition of something contrary. To make ambitious, wholesome, do not take A dram of country's dullness; do not add Corrections, but as chymists purge the bad. Donne. CORRECTIONER. n. s. [from correction.] One that has been in the house of correction; a jailbird. This seems to be the meaning in Shakspeare. I will have you soundly swinged for this, you blue-bottle rogue! you filthy famished correce tioner! Shakspeare's Henry W. CORRECTIVE. adj. [from correct.] Hav ing the power to alter or obviate any bad qualities. Mulberries are pectoral, corrective of bilious alkali CORRECTIVE. n. s. I. That which has the power of altering or obviating any thing amiss. The hair, wool, feathers, and scales, which all animals of prey do swallow, are a seasonable and necessary corrective, to prevent their greediness from filling themselves with too succulent a Ray on the Creation. food. Humanly speaking, and according to the inethod of the world, and the little correctives supplied by art and discipline, it seldom fails but an ill principle has its course, and nature makes South's Sermons. good its blow. 2. Limitation; restriction. There seems to be such an instance in the regiment which the human soul exerciseth in refation to the body, that, with certain correctives, and exceptions, may give some kind of explica There are ladies, without knowing what tenses Locke Pope. Such lays as neither ebb nor flow, Correctly cold, and regularly low. CORRECTNESS. n. s. [from correct.] Accuracy; exactness; freedom from faults. Too much labour often takes away the spirit, by adding to the polishing; so that there remains nothing but a dull correctness, a piece without any considerable faults, but with few beauties. Dryden's Dufresnoy. The 'softness of the flesh, the delicacy of the shape, air, and posture, and the correctness of design, in this statue, are inexpressible, Addison. Late, very late, correctness grew our care, When the tir'd nation breath'd from civil war. Pope. Those pieces have never before been printed from the true copies, or with any tolerable deSwift. gree of correctness. CORRECTOR. n. s. [from correct.] How many does zeal urge rather to do justice on some sins, than to forbear all sin! How many rather to be correctors than practisers of religion! Spratt's Sermons. With all his faults, he sets up to be an universal reformer and corrector of abuses, and remover of grievances. Swift. 2. He that revises any thing to free it from faults: as the corrector of the press, that amends the errours committed in printing. I remember a person, who, by his style and literature, seems to have been the corrector of a hedge press in Little Britain, proceeding gradually to an author. Swift. 3. In medicine. Such an ingredient in a composition, as guards against or abates the force of another: as the lixivial salts prevent the grievous vellications of resinous purges, by dividing their particles, and preventing their adhesion to the intestinal membranes; and as spices and carminative seeds assist the operation of some catharticks, by dissipating wind. In making a medicine, such a thing is called a corrector, which de stroys or diminishes a quality that could not otherwise be dispensed with; thus turpentines are correctors of quicksilver, by destroying its fluxility, and making it capable of mixture. Quincy. To CORRELATE. v. n. [from con and relatus, Latin.] To have a reciprocal relation, as father and son. CORRELATE. n. s. One that stands in the opposite relation. It is one thing for a father to cease to be a father, by casting off his son; and another for him to cease to be so, by the death of his son: in this the relation is at an end, for want of a correlate. South. CORRELATIVE. adj. [con and relativus, Lat.] Having a reciprocal relation, so that the existence of one in a parti cular state depends upon the existence of another. Father and son, husband and wife, and such other correlative terms, seem nearly to belong one to another. South. Giving is a relative action, and so requires a correlative to answer it giving, on one part, transfers no property, unless there be an accepting on the other. South. CORRELATIVENESS. n. s. [from correlative.] The state of being correlative. CORREPTION. n. s. [corripio, correptum, Latin.] Objurgation; chiding; reprehension; reproof. If we must be talking of other people's faults, let it not be to defame, but to amend them, by converting our detraction into admonition and fraternal correption. Governm, of the Tongue. To CORRESPOND. v. n. [con and respondeo, Latin.] 1. To suit; to answer; to be proportionate; to be adequate to; to be adapted to; to fit. The days, if one be compared with another successively throughout the year, are found not to be equal, and will not justly correspond with any artificial or mechanical equal measures of time. Holder on Time. Locke. Words being but empty sounds, any farther than they are signs of our ideas, we cannot but assent to them, as they correspond to those ideas we have, but no farther than that. 2. To keep up commerce with another by alternate letters. CORRESPONDENCE. n. s. [from corCORRESPONDENCY. S respond.] 1. Relation; reciprocal adaptation of one thing to another. Between the law of their heavenly operations, and the actions of men in this our state of mortality, such correspondence there is, as maketh it expedient to know in some sort the one, for the Hooker. other's more perfect direction. Whatever we fancy, things keep their course; and their habitudes, correspondencies, and relations, keep the same to one another. Locke. 2. Intercourse; reciprocal intelligence. I had discovered those unlawful corresponden sies they had used, and engagements they had made to embroil my kingdoms. King Charles. Sure the villains hold a correspondence With the enemy, and thus they would betray us. Denham. It happens very oddly, that the pope and I should have the same thought much about the same time my enemies will be apt to say, that we hold a correspondence together, and act by concert in this matter. Addison. 3. Friendship; interchange of offices or civilities. Let such military persons be assured, and well reputed of, rather than factious and popular; holding also good correspondence with the other Bacon. great men in the state." CORRESPONDENT. adj. [from correspond.] Suitable; adapted; agreeable ; answerable. What good or evil is there under the sun, what action correspondent or repugnant unto the law which God hath imposed upon his creatures, but in or upon it God doth work, according to the law which himself hath eternally proposed to keep? Hooker. And as five zones th' etherial regions bind, Five correspondent are to earth assign'd. Dryd. CORRESPONDENT. n. s. One with whom intelligence or commerce is kept up by mutual messages or letters. He was pleased to command me to send to him, and receive from him, all his letters from and to all his correspondents at home and abroad. Denham's Dedication. CORRESPONSIVE. adj. [from correspond.] Answerable; adapted to any thing. Priam's six gates i' th' city, with massy staples, And corresponsive and fulfilling bolts, Sperre up the sons of Troy, Shakspeare. CORRIDOR. n. s. [French.] I. [In fortification.] The covert way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place. 2. [In architecture. A gallery or long isle round about a building, leading to several chambers at a distance from each other. Harris. There is something very noble in the amplitheatre, though the high wall and corridors that went round it are almost intirely ruined. Audison on Italy. CO'RRIGIBLE. adj. [from corrigo, Lat.] 1. That may be altered or amended. 2. That is a proper object of punishment; punishable. 3. He was taken up very short, and adjudged ar rigible for such presumptuous language. Howd. Corrective; having the power to cor. rect. Not proper, nor used. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners; so that, if we will either have it steril with idleness, or manured with industry, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our will. Shakspeare's Othello. CORRIVA 1.. n. s. [con and rival.} Rival; competitor. They had governours commonly out of the two families of the Geraldines and Butlers, both adversaries and corrivals one against the other. Spenser on Ireland. He that doth redeem her thence, might wear Without corrival all her dignities. Shakspeare. CORRIVALRY. n. s. [from corrival.] Competition; opposition. CORROBORANT. adj. [from corroborate.] Having the power to give strength. There be divers sorts of bracelets fit to comfort the spirits; and they be of three intentions, refrigerant, corroborant, and aperient. To CORROBORATE. v. a. [con and roboro, Latin.] 1. To confirm; to establish. 2. Machiavel well noteth, though in an ill-fa voured instance, there is no trusting to the force of nature, nor to the bravery of words, except it be corroborate by custom. Bac To strengthen; to make strong, To fortify imagination there be three ways; the authority whence the belief is derived, means to quicken and corroborate the imagination, and means to repeat it and refresh it. It was said that the prince himself had, by the sight of foreign courts, and observations on the different natures of people, and rules of govern ment, much excited and awaked his spirits, and corroborated his judgment. As any limb well and duly exercised grows stronger, the nerves of the body are corruberated thereby. CORROBORA'TION. n. s. [from corroborate.] The act of strengthening of confirming; confirmation by some additional security; addition of strength. The lady herself procured a bull, for the better corroboration of the marriage. Bacon's Henry VI CORROBORATIVE. adj. [from corrobo C C rate. Having the power of increasing strength. In the cure of an ulcer, with a moist intemperies, as the heart is weakened by too much humidity, you are to mix corroboratives of an astringent faculty; and the ulcer also requireth to be dried. Wiseman's Surgery. To CORRODE. v. a. [corrodo, Latin.] To eat away by degrees, as a menstruum; to prey upon; to consume; to wear away gradually. Statesmen purge vice with vice, and may cor rode The bad with bad, a spider with a toad; The nature of mankind, left to itself, would Hannibal the Pyreneans past, And steepy Alps, the mounds that nature cast; And with corroding juices, as he went, A passage through the living rock he rent. Dryden's Juvenal. Fishes, which neither chew their meat, nor grind it in their stomachs, do, by a dissolvent fiquor there provided, corrode and reduce it into a chylus. Ray on the Creation. The blood turning acrimonious, corrodes the vessels, producing almost all the diseases of the inflammatory kind. Arbuthnot. Should jealousy its venom once diffuse, Corroding every thought, and blasting all' Love's paradise. Thomson's Spring. CORRO DENT. adj. [from corrode.] Having the power of corroding or wasting any thing away. CORRODIBILITY. n. s. [from corrodible.] The quality of being corrodible; possibility to be consumed by a menstruum. CORRO'DIBLE. adj. [from corrode.] Possible to be consumed or corroded. Metals, although corrodible by waters, yet will not suffer a liquation from the powerfullest heat communicable unto that element. Brown. CO'RRODY. n. s. [from corrodo, Latin.] A defalcation from an allowance or salary, for some other than the original purpose. Besides these floating burgesses of the ocean, there are certain flying citizens of the air, which prescribe for a corrody therein. Carew. In those days even noble persons, and other meaner men, ordered corrodies and pensions to their chaplains and servants out of churches. Ayliffe's Parergon. CORRO'SIBLE. adj. [from corrode.] Possible to be consumed by a menstruum. This ought to be corrodible. CORRO'SIELENESS. n.s. [from corrosible.] Susceptibility of corrosion: rather corDict. rodibility. CORROSION. n. s. [corrodo, Latin.] The power of eating or wearing away by degrees. Corrosion is a particular species of dissolution of bodies, either by an acid or a saline menstruum. It is almost wholly designed for the resolution of bodies most strongly compacted, as bones and metals; so that the menstruums here employed have a considerable moment or force. These liquors, whether acid or urinous, are nothing but salts dissolved in a little phlegm; therefore these being solid, and consequently containing a considerable quantity of matter, do both attract one another more, and are also more attracted by the particles of the body to be dissolved: so when the more solid bodies are put into saline menstruums, the attraction is stronger than in other solutions; and the motion, which is always proportional to the attraction, is more violent: so that we may easily conceive, when the motion is in such a manner increased, it should drive the salts into the pores of the bodies, and open and loosen their cohesion, though ever so firm. Quincy. A kind of poison worketh either by corrosion, or by a secret malignity and enmity to nature. Bacon's Natural History. That corrosion and dissolution of bodies, even the most solid and durable, which is vulgarly ascribed to the air, is caused merely by the action of water upon them; the air being so far from injuring and preying upon the bodies it environs, that it contributes to their security and preservation. Woodward. CORKO'SIVE. adj. [from corrodo, Latin. It was anciently pronounced with the accent on the first syllable, now indifferently.] 1. Having the power of consuming or wearing away. Gold, after it has been divided by corrosive liquors into invisible parts, yet may presently be precipitated, so as to appear again in its own form. Grew's Cosmologia. The sacred sons of vengeance, on whose course Corrosive famine waits, and kills the year. Thomson's Spring. 2. Having the quality to fret or vex. If the maintenance of ceremonies be a corrosive to such as oppugn them, undoubtedly to such as maintain them it can be no great pleasure when they behold that which they reverence is oppugned. Hooker. CORROSIVE.N.S. 1. That which has the quality of wasting any thing away, as the flesh of an ulcer. He meant his corrosives to apply, And with strict diet tame his stubborn malady. Fairy Queen. 2. That which has the power of fretting, or of giving pain. Such speeches savour not of God in him that useth them, and unto virtuously disposed minds they are grievous corrosives. Hooker. Away! though parting be a fretful corrosive, It is applied to a deathful wound. Sbaksp. Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, For things that are not to be remedied. Shaksp. CORROSIVELY. adv. [from corrosive.] 1. Like a corrosive. At first it tasted something corrosively. Boyle. 2. With the power of corrosion. CORROSIVENESS. n. s. [from corrosive.} The quality of corroding or eating away; acrimony. We do infuse, to what he meant for meat, Donne. Corrosiveness, or intense cold or heat. Saltpetre betrays upon the tongue no heat nor corrosiveness at all; but coldness, mixt with a somewhat languid relish retaining to bitterness. Boyle. CO'RRUGANT. adj. [from corrugate.] Having the power of contracting into wrinkles. To CO'RRUGATE. v. a. [corrugo, Lat.] |