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be corporeal

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Material; tangible; physical.

  • His omnipotence That to corporeal substance could add Speed almost spiritual. - Milton

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Animate nouns may be "speakers" (humans) or "callers" (plants and animals); inanimate nouns may be corporeal or spiritual.

The object may be corporeal, such as furniture, or completely the creature of law, such as a patent, copyright, or annuity; it may be movable, such as an animal, or immovable, such as land.

The soul in both aspects can be shown to be corporeal, Lucretius argues.

Because an infinite power cannot be contained in a finite thing, it cannot be corporeal.

Without the body, those aspects of its personal memory that depend on images (which are held to be corporeal) will be lost.(See Aquinas (1912), Part I, question 89).

If so, it would be utterly absurd for the Law to presuppose what it prohibits (i.e., that God must be corporeal), given what the Bible relates about the great theophany.

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Humans are corporeal beings and, as such, they are subject to examination and description by the natural sciences.

The other is corporeal, where he is self-deprecating about things like his romantic life.

Goethe once said of theatre: "It is corporeal man who plays the leading role there - a handsome man, a beautiful woman".

Whereas the killers in hits such as Friday the 13th or Halloween had been corporeal, Craven devised a monster, Freddy Krueger, who pursued his victims through the infinite space of their dreams.

The argument is very simple: If you are or have the potential to become divine, and divinity is corporeal, then plural marriage is the way to create as much potential saints, prophets and Gods as possible.

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