Present in the form of a corpse; existing as or resembling a dead body.
From Old French cors (body) and present (from Latin praesens). This is an archaic or very rare term combining the idea of a body with presence, used in older English theological or poetic contexts.
This is a genuinely obscure word—it appears mostly in medieval and Renaissance texts describing ghosts or the state between life and death, reflecting how people tried to describe the undead before our modern zombie vocabulary existed.
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