Meaning of corse | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A (living) body.
   obsolete
2. An uncommon surname originating in Europe, specifically the United Kingdom and Scandinavia.
3. A dead body, a corpse.
   archaic
4. A village and civil parish in Forest of Dean district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO7828).

Examples

“that lewd ribauld with vile lust aduaunst / Layd first his filthy hands on virgin cleene, / To spoile her daintie corse so faire and sheene […]”

“[W]hat may this meane, / That thou, dead corſe, againe in compleate ſteele, / Reuiſſits thus the glimſes of the Moone, / Making night hideous, and vve fooles of nature, / So horridely to ſhake our diſpoſition, / VVith thoughts beyond the reaches of our ſoules?”

“Ambrosio beheld before him that once noble and majestic form, now become a corse, cold, senseless, and disgusting.”

“'Twas then attested that he had been found / At no great distance from the bleeding corse”

“chorus. Thine eyes will tell thee!—Yonder, see the lifeless corse. The Scene opens and discovers the corse of the Queen, her attendants weeping around it. creon. Alas! O new calamity! What more / Of ill hath Fate in store for me? Here, here / Within these arms I clasp my lifeless son: / And yonder see my wife a bleeding corse!”

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