corporify

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English

Etymology

From Latin corpus (body) +‎ -fy. Compare French corporifier.

Verb

corporify (third-person singular simple present corporifies, present participle corporifying, simple past and past participle corporified)

  1. To form into a body.
    • 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist:
      The Water I us’d to nourish this Plant was not shifted nor renewed; and I chose Spring-water rather than Rain-water, because the latter is more discernably a kinde of πανσπερμια, which, though it be granted to be freed from grosser Mixtures, seems yet to Contain in it, besides the Steams of several Bodies wandering in the Air, which may be suppos’d to impregnate it, a certain Spirituous Substance, which may be Extracted out of it, and is by some mistaken for the Spirit of the World Corporify’d, upon what Grounds, and with what Probability, I may elsewhere perchance, but must not now, Discourse to you.
    • 2000, Richard Grossinger, Embryogenesis: Species, Gender, and Identity, page 591:
      During its first week of life the human blastula creases and double-folds into a pudgy caterpillar; its main sectors are a bent, protruding head lump; a meager body-stalk bearing, like a pregnant lizard, a pericardial bulge; and a thick umbilical trunk corporifying from the underbelly of its curled-in hind.
    • 2015, Ellie Ragland, Jacques Lacan and the Logic of Structure: Topology and Language in Psychoanalysis:
      Clearly Lacan's theory is a radically new idea, proposing that speech (or writing) carry desire or the weight of the real that corporifies language for jouissance effects.