adv. [f. CORPORAL a. + -LY2.]
1. In a corporal or bodily manner; by bodily or personal action; in or as to the body; bodily.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 198/3. Thus wrought our lord by the merites of the blessyd vyrgyne corporally whiche moche more habundantly wyrcheth by hir merytes to the sowles spirituelly.
1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., I. xiii. (1634), 51. The whole fulnesse of the Godhead doth corporally dwell in Christ.
1600. E. Blount, Hist. Portugall (ed. 2), 40. Euery Harquebuzier that shoulde be found … without fiftie bullets … shoulde be corporally punished.
1652. Needham, trans. Selden’s Mare Cl., 196. They did enter upon the Sea corporally by occupation.
1749. Wesley, Wks. (1872), X. 121. If Christ is not corporally present in the host, they grant their adoration to be idolatry.
1855. Milman, Lat. Chr. (1864), II. IV. viii. 400. Euthymius … was corporally punished with blows and stripes.
1883. Law Rep. 11 Q. Bench Div. 609. Whether the offence imputed was punishable corporally or by fine.
† 2. Astron. Cf. CORPORAL a. 2 quot. 1726. Obs.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., IV. xiii. 225. The Sunne is conjoined with many starres … and in the 8th of August is corporally conjoyned with Basiliscus.
