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.

CORPUSCULE, in Physics, a minute particle, or physical atom, being such as a natural body is made up of. By this word is not meant the elementary particles, nor hypothetical principles of chemists; but such particles, whether of a simple or compound nature, whose parts will not be dissolved nor dissipated by ordinary degrees of heat.