Pertaining or relating to the body; bodily; physical: as, corporal pain; corporal punishment.Material; not spiritual; corporeal.In zoology, pertaining to the thorax and abdomen, as distinguished from the head, wings, feet, and other appendages: as, corporal colors or marks.Synonyms Physical, Corporeal, etc. See bodily.n. Eccles., in the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, the fine linen cloth spread on the altar during the celebration of the eucharist.n. The lowest non-commissioned officer of a company of infantry, cavalry, or artillery, next below a sergeant. He has charge of a squad, places and relieves sentinels, and has a certain disciplinary control in camp and barracks.n. Semotilus corporalis, a cyprinoid fish found in fresh waters east of the Alleghanies.n. [lowercase] Three-ball billiards with the addition of a wooden pin which spots wherever it falls on the playing-surface of the table and counts if knocked down by the cue-ball after this has hit another ball.