Corporal
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): (n.) A noncommissioned officer, next below a sergeant. In the United States army he is the lowest noncommissioned officer in a company of infantry. He places and relieves sentinels.
(2): (a.) Alt. of Corporale
(3): (a.) Belonging or relating to the body; bodily.
(4): (a.) Having a body or substance; not spiritual; material. In this sense now usually written corporeal.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
(corporale, sc. relum), the linen cloth which is spread over the symbols after communion. It is so called from being originally intended to represent the sheet in which our Lord's body (corpus) was wrapped after death. It is of linen with reference to Luke 23:53. Originally it was so large as to cover the host and the wine, hence the name palla ( Εἰλητόν ); but in the Middle Ages it received its present smaller size. It was retained by the English Reformers. Herzog, Real-Encyk. 3:153; Wetzer u. Welte, Kirch.- Lex. 2:881.
