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Army corps   /ˈɑrmi kɔr/   Listen
noun
Corps  n.  
1.
The human body, whether living or dead. (Obs.) See Corpse, 1. "By what craft in my corps, it cometh (commences) and where."
2.
A body of men; esp., an organized division of the military establishment; as, the marine corps; the corps of topographical engineers; specifically, an army corps. "A corps operating with an army should consist of three divisions of the line, a brigade of artillery, and a regiment of cavalry."
3.
A body or code of laws. (Obs.) "The whole corps of the law."
4.
(Eccl.) The land with which a prebend or other ecclesiastical office is endowed. (Obs.) "The prebendaries over and above their reserved rents have a corps."
5.
In some countries of Europe, a form of students' social society binding the members to strict adherence to certain student customs and its code of honor; Ger. spelling usually korps.
Army corps, or (French) Corps d'armée, a body containing two or more divisions of a large army, organized as a complete army in itself.
Corps de logis, the principal mass of a building, considered apart from its wings.
Corps diplomatique, the body of ministers or envoys accredited to a government.





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... reflected in the conduct of the Kaiser, who, as illustrative of the point, is quoted at the dedication of the monument to Prince Frederick Charles at Frankfurt-on-the-Oder in 1891, as having said, "We would rather sacrifice our eighteen army corps and our forty-two millions inhabitants on the field of battle than surrender a single stone of what my father and Prince ...
— Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights • Kelly Miller
... divisional sign, for instance, is an iddy-umpty plain on a field plainer. We vary the heraldry by ringing changes on the colours. On our brigade arm-band it becomes an iddy-umpty gules on a field azure. If I could be quite sure of the heraldic slang for puce I would tell you what it is on our Army Corps arm-band. On a waggon it used to be an iddy-umpty blank on a field muddy. But administrative genius has changed all that. A routine order, the other day, ordered a pink border to be painted round it, and this first simple ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, August 1, 1917. • Various
... the Prince of Eckmuehl (Davout) had a very hot engagement with the Russian army corps under Prince Bagratian before Mohilew; on July 25, a bloody battle was fought near Ostrowno. The houses and other buildings of Ostrowno were filled with wounded, the battlefield covered with corpses of men and ...
— Napoleon's Campaign in Russia Anno 1812 • Achilles Rose
... three powerful divisions - the army of European Russia, the army of Asia, already referred to, and the army of the Caucasus. The European Russian field army consists of twenty-seven army corps - each corps comprising, at fighting strength, about 36,000 men - and some twenty-odd cavalry divisions, of 4,000 horsemen each. With the field army of the Caucasus and the first and second reserve divisions of the Cossacks, the total would be brought ...
— A History of The Nations and Empires Involved and a Study - of the Events Culminating in The Great Conflict • Logan Marshall
... up this time,' said Dave to Ken, as he tried the sights of a new rifle. 'There's stuff ashore here for an army corps, they tell me. It's no slouch of a job to fit us all out fresh in a few hours. They'd never have done it in ...
— On Land And Sea At The Dardanelles • Thomas Charles Bridges


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