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Corporal
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CORPORAL. An epithet for anything belonging to the body, as, corporal punishment, for punishment inflicted on the person of the criminal; corporal oath, which is an oath by the party who takes it being obliged to lay his hand on the Bible.

CORPORAL, in the army. A non-commissioned officer in a battalion of infantry.


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In Most's opinion, the Synoptics--Matthew, Mark, and Luke--offer troubled, conflicted accounts of Jesus' post-Resurrection corporality, and leave lacunae where they most intend to resolve doubt.
More than thirty years after British-born artist Anthony McCall created his now-legendary Line Describing a Cone, the first of his "solid light" films, the elegantly simple 1973 work--a projected white dot that slowly grows over thirty minutes into a circular line on the facing wall, eventually filling the dark space with a conical "volume" whose vivid corporality is a beguiling trick of light and atmosphere--remains one of postwar art's signal explorations of perceptual boundary states.
The corporality of bodies--the stuff of skin, breath, bodily fluids, and blood--the body language of the bible and Talmud is simply not present and the abundance, exuberance and boundless qualities of life are typically not given their due.
 
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