Careful Words

corporal (n.)

corporal (adj.)

  I will take my corporal oath on it.

Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616): Don Quixote. Part i. Book iv. Chap. x.

The sense of death is most in apprehension;

And the poor beetle, that we tread upon,

In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great

As when a giant dies.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Measure for Measure. Act iii. Sc. 1.