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CORPORAL . 1. (From See also:Lat. corporalis, belonging to the corpus or See also:body), an See also:adjective appearing in several expressions, such as " corporal See also:punishment " (see below), or in " corporal See also:works of See also:mercy," for those acts confined to the succouring of the bodily needs, such as feeding the hungry, visiting the sick, rescuing captives. A " corporal See also:oath " was sworn with the body in contact with a sacred See also:object (see OATH).
2. (From Lat. corporalis, sc. See also:palla, or corporale, sc. See also:gallium), in the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, a small square See also:linen See also:cloth, which at the service of the See also:Mass is placed on the See also:altar under the See also:chalice and See also:paten. It was originally large enough to See also:cover the whole See also:surface of the altar, and was folded over so as to cover the chalice—a See also:custom still observed by the See also:Carthusians. The chalice is now, however, covered by another small square of linen, stiffened withcardboard, &c., known as the See also:pall (palla). When not in use both corporal and pall are carried in a square silken See also:pocket called the burse. The corporal must be blessed by the See also:bishop, or by a See also:priest with See also:special faculties, the See also:ritual prayers invoking the divine blessing that the linen may be worthy to cover and enwrap the body and See also:blood of the See also:Lord. It represents the winding-See also:sheet in which See also:Joseph of Arimathea wrapped the body of the dead See also:Christ.
3. (Of uncertain derivation; the See also:French See also:form caporal, and Ital. caporale, point to an origin from See also:capo, See also:Italian for See also:head; the New See also:English See also:Dictionary, however, favours the derivation from Lat. corpus, Ital. corpo, body), a non-commissioned officer of See also:infantry, See also:cavalry and See also:artillery, ranking below a sergeant. This See also:rank is almost universal in armies. In the 16th and 17th centuries there were corporals but no sergeants in the cavalry, and this custom is preserved in the three regiments of See also:British See also:household cavalry, the rank of sergeant being replaced by that of " corporal of See also:horse," and that of sergeant-See also:major by " corporal-major." In the 16th and See also:early 17th centuries the See also:title " corporal of the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field " was often given to a See also:superior officer who acted as a See also:staff-officer to the sergeant-major-See also:general. In the See also:navy the " See also:ship's corporal," formerly a semi-military instructor to the See also:- CREW (sometimes explained as a sea term of Scandinavian origin, cf. O. Icel. kris, a swarm or crowd, but now regarded as a shortened form of accrue, accrewe, used in the 16th century in the sense of a reinforcement, O. Fr. acreue, from accrofire, to grow,
- CREW, NATHANIEL CREW, 3RD BARON (1633–1721)
crew, is now a See also:petty officer charged with assisting the See also:master-at-arms in See also:police duties on See also:board ship.
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