noun
definition
A dead body.
example
Drive over the [expletive] corpses! Or we're not letting you in!
definition
(sometimes derogatory) A human body in general, whether living or dead.
verb
definition
(of an actor) To lose control during a performance and laugh uncontrollably.
Examples of corpse in a Sentence
Or was it the corpse of Mr. Abbott?
On the way to the cemetery the corpse is generally carried to some revered mosque.
Pierre was received as if he were a corpse or a leper.
The corpse was covered with a white sheet, but before pulling the cloth back, the attendant again looked at Cynthia, who nodded.
The door leading to his father.s corpse was locked, and he tested it.
She couldn't shake the feeling she got when she first saw the faceless corpse, that he was Logan.
The corpse, having been washed and shrouded, is placed in an open bier, covered with a cashmere shawl, in the case of a man; or in a closed bier, having a post in front, on which are placed feminine ornaments, in that of a woman or child.
The corpse was treated with natron and asphalt, and wound in a copious swathing of linen bandage, with a mask of linen and stucco on the face.
A public mourning followed, which lasted six days, and Cambyses accompanied the corpse to the tomb.
In every case of death from disease or unknown causes sorcery was suspected and an inquest held, at which the corpse was asked by each relative in succession the name of the murderer.
A painstaking police officer, considering the presence of a corpse in his excellency's courtyard unseemly, told the dragoons to take it away.
His headless corpse was later found in a ditch.
A fierce quarrel arose over his burial between the brotherhood of St Stephen, to which he had belonged, and the university professors, who desired to escort his corpse to the grave.
The corpse may be burnt, in part or as a whole; portions may be assigned to the priest, the sacrificer and the gods; the skull, bones, &c., may receive special treatment; the fat or blood may be set aside, and they or the ashes may be singled out as the share of the god, to be offered upon the altar; the skin of the victim may be employed as a covering for the idol or material representative of the god, either permanently or till the next annual sacrifice.
This look resembles a corpse right out of the coffin.
The mummified corpse as a divine thing - not the mere khat - was called the sahu (an old word meaning "noble") or ikh, which in the latter period meant a spirit or demon.
Then the corpse is brought and laid in the midst; the pile is kindled and the roaring flame rises, mingled with weeping, till all is consumed.
Each of the Council That Was Seven was represented, dutifully overlooking their father.s corpse.
The king's corpse was carried to Winchester, and was honorably interred by the said abbot Dunstan, in the Old Monastery.
The end result is rather like a game of exquisite corpse.
As Tresham died impenitent, his corpse was beheaded, and the head is to be set up at Northampton.
Whether the departed spirits tenanted them according to the Chinese belief is not recorded; though it probably was so, for at funerals they might be carried, like the images of the gods in Lectisternia (see Image Worship), on couches before the corpse.
It is a parade of wild animals Our world is now a pitiful weakling It groans with the burden of an elephant corpse !
Corpse brides are also needed for men who never married while alive, and die as a bachelor.
You may want to start such a class with a Sun Salutation Sequence and end with Corpse Pose.
Then he dressed the naked corpse, and pulled her up on the drapery cord.
Sometimes the nearest relative sleeps with his head on the corpse, in the belief that he will dream of the murderer.
By the common law of England a corpse is not the subject of property nor capable of holding property.
It is not therefore larceny to steal a corpse, but any removal of the coffin or grave-cloths is otherwise, such remaining the property of the persons who buried the body.
No corpse can be attached, taken in execution, arrested or detained for debt.
But this did not conclude the ceremony, even as far as the victim was concerned; it remained to dispose of the corpse.
He was put in charge of the Red Cross organization on the German front, and it fell to him to search for the corpse of the unfortunate Samsonov.
It appears to have been a Greek custom to cut a lock of hair from a dead man's head, and hang it outside of the house door, in token that there was a corpse in the house.
A few months later he left Egypt for the East and never returned to his city; but his corpse was ultimately entombed there.
All hesitated save Angad (or own body), who knelt and uncovered the dead, but, behold, the corpse had disappeared, and a dish of sacred food was found in its place.
In Teneriffe and Grand Canary the corpse was simply wrapped up in goat and sheep skins, while in other islands a resinous substance was used to preserve the body, which was then placed in a cave difficult of access, or buried under a tumulus.
The story of the exhumation and coronation of the corpse of Inez has often been told.
It is said that to the dead body, crowned and robed in royal raiment, and enthroned beside the king, the assembled nobles of Portugal paid homage as to their queen, swearing fealty on the withered hand of the corpse.
His first wife, who died at Oxford on the 15th of February 1553, was disinterred in 1551 and tried for heresy; legal evidence was not forthcoming because witnesses had not understood her tongue; and instead of the corpse being burnt, it was merely cast on a dunghill in the stable of the dean of Christ Church.
Some of the eagles feathers, blown to his side, suggest the death of the bird; at his feet lies the corpse of the little boy, and the horror, grief and anger that such a tragedy would inspire are depicted with striking realism in the farmers face.
No coffins are used, and a stone vault is built over the corpse so that it may not come into direct contact with the earth.
He compares it also to the change of Moses' rod into a snake, of the Nile into blood, to the virtue inherent in Elijah's mantle or in the wood of the cross or in the clay mixt of dust and the Lord's spittle, or in Elisha's relics which raised a corpse to life, or in the burning bush.
The corpse was flayed, and Mani's adherents were cruelly persecuted by the king.
By the time of the VIth Dynasty it was usual to lay the corpse on its left side in the attitude of sleep, and a wooden coffin was often provided upon which were inscribed magic formulae that had already been employed for ages in ritual.
It was always the prayer that the soul (bai) should be able to revisit the corpse (khat), and some inscriptions show an expectation of the body itself being revivified, "the mouth speaking," "the legs walking," and everything conforming with its previous terrestrial life.
As the corpse was found generally to disappear and decay in spite of preservative magic, especially in the early ages, various substitutes were resorted to; statues and statuettes were thought efficacious, but, apart from their costliness, even these were subject to decay or destruction by violence, and in the absence of anything more substantial the Egyptians doubtless reflected that magic words alone in the last resort made everything right.
In Edinburgh she was received by a yelling mob, which flaunted before her at each turn a banner representing the corpse of Darnley with her child beside it invoking on his knees the retribution of divine justice.
It was his duty to ferry over the Styx (or Acheron) those souls of the deceased who had duly received the rites of burial, in payment for which service he received an obol, which was placed in the mouth of the corpse.
Immediately on death the corpse is turned towards Mecca, and the women of the household, assisted by hired mourners, commence their peculiar wailing, while fikis recite portions of the Koran.
At first it was enough to acquire some object which had enjoyed at least a mediate connexion with the hallowed corpse.