1. corporal - Noun
2. corporal - Adjective
3. corporal - Adjective Satellite
A noncommissioned officer, next below a sergeant. In the United States army he is the lowest noncommissioned officer in a company of infantry. He places and relieves sentinels.
Belonging or relating to the body; bodily.
Having a body or substance; not spiritual; material. In this sense now usually written corporeal.
Alt. of Corporale
Source: Webster's dictionaryAdolf Hitler may have been wrong all down the line, but one thing is beyond dispute: the man was able to work his way up from lance corporal in the German Army to Führer of a people of almost 80 million. His success alone proved that I should subordinate myself to this man. Adolf Eichmann
Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers. P. J. O'Rourke
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment. George Orwell
I have said on many occasions, in Parliament and elsewhere, that I am not convinced that this [the restoration of corporal punishment for young offenders] would have the effect for which its advocates hope. Rab Butler
I will take my corporal oath on it. Miguel de Cervantes
I bent over a chair and was given three of the best with my trousers on. I did not think he lightened his strokes. I have never understood why Western educationists are so much against corporal punishment. It did my fellow students and me no harm. Lee Kuan Yew