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Noun
corpes (plural corpeses)
- Obsolete spelling of corpse.
1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5:Rome is no more: but if the shade of Rome May of the bodie yeeld a seeming sight, It's like a corse drawne forth out of the tombe By magicke skill out of eternall night: The corpes of Rome in ashes is entombed, And her great spirite, reioyned to the spirite Of this great masse, is in the same enwombed; But her brave writings, which, her famous merite In spight of Time out of the dust doth reare, Doo make her idole* through the world appeare.
1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse:And he spake unto her and said, Behold here is one that will enterprise to watch the corpes of your husband this night.
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