adv. [f. CORPORATE a. + -LY2.]
† 1. In or as regards the body; bodily. Obs.
1494. Fabyan, Chron., VII. ccxxxiii. 269. He founded the abbey of Feuersham … where he nowe corporatly restyth.
2. In a corporate capacity; as a corporation.
1804. Ld. Ellenborough, in East, Reports, V. 310. General corporate acts required to be done by the whole body corporately assembled.
1836. T. Hook, G. Gurney, III. 118. The Honourable John Company (as the Court of Directors … are corporately called in that country [India]).
