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NOUN
  1. more than average fatness

How To Use corpulency In A Sentence

  • Do but extract from the corpulency of bodies, or resolve things beyond their first matter, and you discover the habitation of angels; which if I call the ubiquitary and omnipresent essence of God, I hope I shall not offend divinity: for, before the creation of the world, God was really all things. Religio Medici
  • There is nothing new about the Mahdah method of destroying corpulency.
  • Their walk is a waddle, and they bulge with seaming corpulency. CHAPTER XXXV
  • Others say that he died long afterwards, of too great corpulency. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • I warmly recommended the inward use of soap, in order to reduce his corpulency, as the only safe and effectual remedy in his case, and a remedy which he might continue to use the longest; I enforced my advice by the reasonings above urged, of which he was too good a judge not to perceive their full cogency. 1760 diet revolution | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
  • I believe no age did ever afford more instances of corpulency than our own. Gary Taubes responds to George Bray | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
  • His person was large, robust, I may say approaching to the gigantick, and grown unwieldy from corpulency. Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
  • It will reduce your corpulency in a safe and agreeable manner, with no bad results - unlike those other cures.
  • So did his person, which was sleek though free from corpulency. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
  • You observe a door on the first landing, carefully guarded by two waiters, in and out of which stout gentlemen with very red faces keep running, with a degree of speed highly unbecoming the gravity of persons of their years and corpulency. Sketches by Boz
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