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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)

  1. 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 presentcorporifies
present participlecorporifying
past participlecorporified
pastcorporified

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.

Words near corporify in the dictionary

  1. corporicity
  2. corporification
  3. corporifications
  4. corporified
  5. corporifies
  6. corporify
  7. corporifying
  8. corporin
  9. corporisation
  10. corporisations
  11. corporization

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