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Corposant. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Corposant Forms: 6 (corpus sancti), 7 corpus sant, (pl.) corpuzans, 8 (corpo zanto), corpusant, (pl.) corpusanse, 8– corposant. See also COMPOSANT. [ad. Pg. and OSp. corpo santo = L. corpus sanctum holy body, or corpus sancti saint’s body: cf. CORSAINT.]

1   The ball of light that is sometimes seen on a ship (esp. about the masts or yard-arms) during a storm; also called ‘St. Elmo’s Fire.’

2 1561.  Eden, Arte Nauig., II. xx. 51 b. Shining exhalations that appeare in tempestes: which the Mariners call sant-elmo or Corpus sancti.

3 1655.  Marvell, Poems, First Anniversary, 270. While baleful Tritons to the shipwrack guide, and corposants along the tacklings slide.

4 1697.  Dampier, Voy. (1698), I. xv. 414. After four a clock the Thunder and the Rain abated, and then we saw a Corpus Sant at our Main-top-mast head…. This sight rejoyc’d our Men exceedingly; for the height of the Storm is commonly over when the Corpus Sant is seen aloft.

5 1710.  Brit. Apollo, III. No. 94. 2/1. A Vapor … by Marriners call’d a Corpo Zanto.

6 1738.  T. Shaw, Trav. Barbary & Levant, 363. Those luminous Bodies, which, at Sea, skip about the Masts and Yards of Ships, and are called Corpusanse by the Mariners.

7 1840.  R. H. Dana, Bef. Mast, xxxiv. 131. Upon the main top-gallant masthead was a ball of light, which the sailors name a corposant (corpus sancti).

8 1888.  Judd, in, Erupt. Krakatoa (ed. Symons, 1888), 20. Captain WATSON states that during the night the mastheads and yard-arms of his ship were ‘studded with corposants.’

9   b.  fig.

10 1650.  B., Discolliminium, 41. Some new-lighted Corpuzans of the Army, or some young Paracretto’s now nursing up in the Universities, to supply your roomes, will finish the other half.

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