CORPUS, in Anatomy, is applied to several parts of the animal structure; as corpus callosum, corpus cavernosum, &c. See ANATOMY Index.
CORPUS is also used in matters of learning, for several works of the same nature collected and bound together.
Gratian made a collection of the canons of the church, called corpus canonum. The corpus of the civil law is composed of the digest, code, and institutes. We have also a corpus of the Greek poets; and another of the Latin poets.
Corpus Christi, a festival of the church of England, kept on the next Thursday after Trinity Sunday, instituted in honour of the eucharist; to which also one of the colleges of Oxford is dedicated.