corporal
Speech parts
1. corporal - Noun
2. corporal - Adjective
3. corporal - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
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
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Adolf 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.
Let's reintroduce corporal punishment in the schools - and use it on the teachers.
I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.
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.
I will take my corporal oath on it.
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.