[a. F. corpuscule, ad. L. corpusculum: see below.] = CORPUSCLE.
1816. L. Hunt, Poems, Bacchus in Tusc., 17. All manner of corpuscules.
1853. Herschel, Pop. Lect. Sc., vii. § 52 (1873), 268. According to the former [theory], light consists in ‘Corpuscules,’ or excessively minute material particles darted out in all directions from the luminous body.
1871. B. Stewart, Heat, § 319. Heat is a species of motion of the corpuscules of bodies.
