ETYM French capital, Latin capitalis capital, from caput head. Related to Chief, Capital.
(Homonym: capitol).
Uppercase; SYN. great, majuscule.
ETYM Latin corporeus, from corpus body.
Physical; pertaining to or having a body; tangible. corporeality, corporeity.
Having material or physical form or substance; - Benjamin Jowett; SYN. material.
ETYM Latin corruptibilis: cf. French corruptible.
Capable of being corrupted; SYN. bribable, dishonest, purchasable, venal.
1. (Of a disease) Having a rapid course and violent effect.
2. (Theology) Involving loss of divine grace or spiritual death; SYN. mortal.
3. Causing or capable of causing death; SYN. deathly, mortal.
4. Extremely poisonous or injurious; producing venom; SYN. venomous, virulent.
5. Of an instrument of certain death; SYN. lethal.
1. Fatal
2. Of, relating to, or suggestive of death
ETYM Latin lethalis, letalis, from lethum, letum, death: cf. French léthal.
Deadly; mortal; fatal.
ETYM French mortel, Latin mortalis, from mors, mortis, death, from moriri 8die; akin to Eng. murder. Related to Murder, Filemot, Mere a lake, Mortgage.
1. Subject to death.
2. Unrelenting and deadly.
Destructive; ruinous; fatal; deadly, highly destructive; malicious, evil.Dangerous; extremely harmful; dastardly.
ETYM as. woroldlic.
Characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world.