corpus vile

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Definition of corpus vile in English English dictionary

A person, animal or thing treated as expendable, to therefore use as an experimental subject regardless of whatever loss or damage it may suffer as a result

The subject of an experiment

The image of Shakespeare's works has suffered in many people's minds because of it being much used as a corpus vile for school teaching.

Hyphenation

cor·pus vile

Turkish pronunciation

kôrpıs vayl

Pronunciation

/ˈkôrpəs ˈvīl/ /ˈkɔːrpəs ˈvaɪl/

Etymology

() From Latin corpus (“body”) vile (“worthless”).