Cor·po·ral, a.
 1. Belonging or relating to the body; bodily. “Past corporal toil.”
    Pillories and other corporal infections.   --Milton.
 Corporal punishment law, punishment applied to the body of the offender, including the death penalty, whipping, and imprisonment.
 2. Having a body or substance; not spiritual; material. In this sense now usually written corporeal.
    A corporal heaven . . . .where the stare are.   --Latimer.
 What seemed corporal melted
 As breath into the wind.   --Shak.
 Syn: -- Corporal, Bodily, Corporeal.
 Usage: Bodily is opposed to mental; as, bodily affections. Corporeal refers to the whole physical structure or nature, of the body; as, corporeal substance or frame. Corporal, as now used, refers more to punishment or some infliction; as, corporal punishment. To speak of corporeal punishment is an error. Bodily austerities; the corporeal mold.

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 corporal punishment
      n : the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of
          committing a crime