corporify
corporify verb: to form into a body.
Verb
corporify (third-person singular simple present corporifies, present participle corporifying, simple past and past participle corporified)
- To form into a body.
- The Water I us’d to nourish this Plant was not shifted nor renewed; and I chose Spring-water rather than Rain-water, because the latter is more discernably a kinde of πανσπερμια, which, though it be granted to be freed from grosser Mixtures, seems yet to Contain in it, besides the Steams of several...1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist
- During its first week of life the human blastula creases and double-folds into a pudgy caterpillar; its main sectors are a bent, protruding head lump; a meager body-stalk bearing, like a pregnant lizard, a pericardial bulge; and a thick umbilical trunk corporifying from the underbelly of its...2000, Richard Grossinger, Embryogenesis: Species, Gender, and Identity, page 591
Forms of corporify
| third-person singular present | corporifies |
|---|---|
| present participle | corporifying |
| past participle | corporified |
| past | corporified |
Origin of corporify
From Latin corpus (“body”) + -fy. Compare French corporifier.
Questions about corporify
- What does corporify mean?
- Corporify means to form into a body.
- What part of speech is corporify?
- Corporify is a verb.
- What is the past tense of corporify?
- The past tense of corporify is corporified.
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