U.S. colloq. = Bulkiness of body.
In quot. 1837 as a humorous title, after his excellency, etc.
1826. The Tuscumbian, 18 Oct., 4/4. That Sea of vital fluid, which for sundry years, has coursed so uninterruptedly through, the multifarious channels of thy most lumpy corporosity.
1837. J. C. Neal, Charcoal Sketches (1840), 100 (Farmer). His ‘corporosity’ touches the ground which his hands in vain attempt to reach.
1860. Central City Daily Courier, 5 May, 2/3. Her great, ungainly Falstaffian corporosity is set off in a dress of prismatic sheen.
