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/kˈɔrpərəl pˈənɪʃmənt/ Listen

adjective

Corporal adj.

Belonging or relating to the body; bodily. "Past corporal toil." "Pillories and other corporal infections."

Corporal punishment (law), punishment applied to the body of the offender, including the death penalty, whipping, and imprisonment.

Having a body or substance; not spiritual; material. In this sense now usually written corporeal. "A corporal heaven...where the stare are." "What seemed corporal melted As breath into the wind."

Synonyms: Corporal, Bodily, Corporeal. Bodily is opposed to mental; as, bodily affections. Corporeal refers to the whole physical structure or nature, of the body; as, corporeal substance or frame. Corporal, as now used, refers more to punishment or some infliction; as, corporal punishment. To speak of corporeal punishment is an error. Bodily austerities; the corporeal mold.

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... a grand thing if educationists could be persuaded to open their eyes to the fact that women, having been providentially saved from school instruction for past generations, have been enabled to preserve mental faculties that no amount of cramming and corporal punishment has ever succeeded in awakening in man. They would then cease from their ignorant attempt to deprive woman of her intellectual gift, and possibly even do something towards securing man a little mental room for the installation of his own ...

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... fools, for what will it matter to posterity what their initials or names are; they only rouse the ire of those who follow them and a feeling of disappointment that they had not caught the offenders in their act of wanton mischief and been able to administer some corporal punishment or other. ...

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— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall

... the weak, who need a special type of punishment. The wife-beater, for example, is inadequately punished by imprisonment; for imprisonment may often mean nothing to him, while it may cause hunger and want to the wife and children who have been the victims of his brutality. Probably some form of corporal punishment would be the most adequate way of meeting ...

— State of the Union Addresses of Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt

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