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Definition of Corpus Christi
1. Noun. Thursday after Trinity Sunday; first celebrated in 1246.
2. Noun. A city in southern Texas on an arm of the Gulf of Mexico.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corpus Christi
Literary usage of Corpus Christi
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant by Ulysses Simpson Grant (1885)
"T^ARLY in September the regiment left New Or- 1—* leans for Corpus Christi, now
in Texas. Ocean steamers were not then common, and the passage was made in ..."
2. Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico by John Russell Bartlett (1854)
"Here there is plenty of water; but on the bar which connects it with the Gulf
there is only about six feet. Corpus Christi Bay is about forty miles from ..."
3. Publications by Oxford Historical Society, Bostonian Society (1889)
"Corpus Christi COLLEDGE. (Incipit fol. 32a) Having finished our discourse concernir
Brasen-nose Colledge, wee must proceede to speak of Corpus Chris ..."
4. English Pageantry: An Historical Outline by Robert Withington (1918)
"She points out that the York processions had nothing to do with the Corpus Christi
plays, and says : " My father made a natural error, (in which Drake ..."
5. Southwestern Historical Quarterly by Texas State Historical Association, Eugene Campbell Barker, Herbert Eugene Bolton, University of Texas at Austin Center for Studies in Texas History (1901)
"The country surrounding the little city of Corpus Christi, on the southern coast
of Texas, has been the field of many bloody encounters which have helped to ..."
6. English Literature from Widsith to the Death of Chaucer: A Source Book by Allen Rogers Benham (1916)
"The first is the proclamation of the town clerk at York in 1394 of the annual
Corpus Christi festival. This document shows the conditions under which such ..."
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