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Webster 1913 Edition
Corse
1.
A living body or its bulk.
[Obs.]
For he was strong, and of so mighty
As ever wielded spear in warlike hand.
corse
As ever wielded spear in warlike hand.
Spenser.
2.
A corpse; the dead body of a human being.
[Archaic or Poetic]
Set down the
I’ll make a
corse
; or, by Saint Paul
,I’ll make a
corse
of him that disobeys. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Corse
CORSE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
Corse
corse
corse
English
Noun
corse (plural corses)
- (obsolete) A (living) body.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
- that lewd ribauld with vile lust aduaunst / Layd first his filthy hands on virgin cleene, / To spoile her daintie corse so faire and sheene [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:
- (archaic) A dead body, a corpse.
- 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 214:
- Ambrosio beheld before him that once noble and majestic form, now become a corse, cold, senseless, and disgusting.
- 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 214:
Anagrams
French
Pronunciation
Adjective
corse m, f (plural corses)
Noun
corse m (uncountable)
- Corsican (language)
Verb
corse
- first-person singular present indicative of corser
- third-person singular present indicative of corser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of corser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of corser
- second-person singular imperative of corser