a noncommissioned officer in the Army or Air Force or Marines

affecting or characteristic of the body as opposed to the mind or spirit; bodily needs; a corporal defect; corporeal suffering; a somatic symptom or somatic illness

[ Syn: bodily , corporeal , somatic ]

possessing or existing in bodily form; what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind- Shakespeare; an incarnate spirit; `corporate is an archaic term

[ Syn: bodied , corporate , embodied , incarnate ]