Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—C

Corpus Christi

[body of Christ ]. A festival of the Church, kept on the first Thursday after Trinity Sunday, in honour of the eucharist. There are colleges both at Cambridge and Oxford so named.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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