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Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn. Up stood the cornu reed. Milton.

nd his coronal oath require his undeniable assent to what laws the Parliament agree upon. Milton.

to the body; bodily. "Past corporal toil." Shak. Pillories and other corporal infections. Milton. Corporal punishment (law), punishment applied to the body of the offender, including the death penalty, whipping, and imprisonment.

A confraternity; a guild. [Obs.] Milton.

immaterial. His omnipotence That to corporeal substance could add Speed almost spiritual. Milton. Corporeal property, such as may be seen and handled (as opposed to incorporeal, which can not be seen or handled, and exists only in contemplation). Mozley & W.

s perphaps too exclusively national, in Germany it is certainly too cosmopolite. Sir W. Hamilton.

e cosmothetic idealists . . . deny that mind is immediately conscious of matter. Sir W. Hamilton.

To require to be borne or suffered; to cause. To do him wanton rites, whichcost them woe. Milton. To cost dear, to require or occasion a large outlay of money, or much labor, self-denial, suffering, etc.

for sheep or doves. Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, In hurdled cotes. Milton.

of language; to express; to phrase; -- used with in and under. A well-couched invective. Milton. I had received a letter from Flora couched in rather cool terms. Blackw. Mag.

ation; consultation. Satan . . . void of rest, His potentates to council called by night. Milton. O great in action and in council wise. Pope. Aulic council. See under Aulic. -- Cabinet council. See under Cabinet. -- City council, the legislative branch of a city government, usually consisting of a board of aldermen…

council; one who gives an opinion. [Obs.] I will in three months be an expert counsilist. Milton.

To advise or recommend, as an act or course. They who counsel war. Milton. Thus Belial, with words clothed in reson's garb, Counseled ignoble ease and peaceful sloth. Milton.

the face; look; aspect; mien. So spake the Son, and into terror changed His countenance. Milton.

is necessary to counterbalance and correct the influence of the study of nature. Sir W. Hamilton.

equilibrum; equiponderance. The pendulous round eart, with balanced air, In counterpoise. Milton.

an opposing influence. [Obs.] A countersway of restraint, curbing their wild exorbitance. Milton.

two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx. Sir W. Hamilton.

change my state. Stirling. Many a famous realm And country, whereof here needs no account Milton.

. Such were our couple, man and wife. Lloyd. Fair couple linked in happy, nuptial league. Milton.