n. | 1. | A body, living or dead; the corporeal substance of a thing.
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Noun | 1. | corpus - capital as contrasted with the income derived from it Synonyms: principal sum, principal |
2. | corpus - a collection of writings; "he edited the Hemingway corpus" | |
3. | corpus - the main part of an organ or other bodily structure |
CORPUS. A Latin word, which signifies body; as, corpus delicti, the body of the offence, the essence of the crime; corpus juris canonis, the body of the canon law; corpus juris civilis, the body of the Civil law.
capital, principal, principal sum