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).

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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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