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Nave Topical Bible
• Corporal Punishment
Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
• Corporal
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Mercy, Corporal and Spiritual Works of
• Corporations
• Corporal Works of Mercy
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Webster Dictionary
• Quasi-Public Corporation
• Quasi Corporation
• Public-Service Corporation
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Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Corporal
• Corporal Punishment
• Corporation
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Act, Corporation
• Corporal
• Corporal Acts of Mercy
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Little Corporal
• Trim, Corporal
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Corporal
• Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy
• Corporation
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The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Corporal Punishment
• Corporation
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• ܦ݁ܰܓ݂ܪܳܢܳܐ

(corporale, sc. relum), the linen cloth which is spread over the symbols after communion. It is so called from being originally intended to represent the sheet in which our Lord's body (corpus) was wrapped after death. It is of linen with reference to Luke 23:53. Originally it was so large as to cover the host and the wine, hence the name palla (εἰλητόν ); but in the Middle Ages it received its present smaller size. It was retained by the English Reformers. Herzog, Real-Encyk. 3:153; Wetzer u. Welte, Kirch.- Lex. 2:881.