How To Use Corposant In A Sentence
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The most stunning demonstration of its unearthly spell occurs late in Pequod's ill-fated voyage, when the ship is illuminated by an eerie outburst of corposants in the midst of a violent squall.
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During a typhoon in the Sea of Japan, the ship is torn of her canvas and the masts come aglow with the corposants, St Elmo's Fire, a source of deep superstition to sailors, who believed them to be a portentious omen, ‘God's burning finger… laid upon the ship’.
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I looked, and saw a corposant, as it is called at sea, -- a St. Elmo's fire, -- burning at the end of the crossjack-yard.
Stories by English Authors: the Sea
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The next year, Samir hit the word corposant which refers to an electrical phenomenon and he shocked the crowd by finishing 27th.
CNN Transcript May 31, 2007
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We were off the yard in good season, for it is held a fatal sign to have the pale light of the corposant thrown upon ones face.
Chapter XXXIV. Narrow Escapes-The Equator-Tropical Squalls-A Thunder Storm
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When we got down we found all hands looking aloft, and there, directly over where we had been standing, upon the main top-gallant-mast-head, was a ball of light, which the sailors name a corposant (corpus sancti), and which the mate had called out to us to look at.
Chapter XXXIV. Narrow Escapes-The Equator-Tropical Squalls-A Thunder Storm
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Gaggii kept chanting until he was surrounded by a half circle of bobbing, corposant shapes, each yellow or red-orange, each an individually expressive nimbus.
Cyber Way
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When we got down we found all hands looking aloft, and there, directly over where we had been standing, upon the main top-gallant mast-head, was a ball of light, which the sailors call a corposant
Two Years Before the Mast
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It was a bronze statue, Greek or Roman, of a torchbearer whose branch flared with sudden cold corposant fire.
Operation Luna
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Everybody knows nowadays that a corposant is nothing whatever but an electrical phenomenon, and therefore merely an indication that the atmosphere is surcharged with electricity.
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The mariners believed them to be the souls of the departed, whence they are also called corposant (corpo santo).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
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I looked, and saw a corposant, as it is called at sea, -- a St. Elmo's fire, -- burning at the end of the crossjack-yard.
Stories by English Authors: the Sea
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The next year, Samir hit the word corposant, which refers to an electrical phenomenon.
CNN Transcript May 30, 2007
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The salt air smothers the coastal lights, but the mast, the shipped oars, ignite with the corposant, and all through the water a green incandescence, and often at night the coastline is dark, obscured by the luminous reef by the Phoenix of Habbakuk, low in the canceling west, and the wind and the water are borrowed and inward as light.
The Reign of Istar
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Seeing St. Elmo's Fire, jolly Stubb changed to pleading Stubb: ‘The corposants have mercy on us all!’
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Castor and Pollux were also the names given by Roman sailors to St. Elmo's Fire, or the corposant phenomenon, when the flame effect on the mast of a ship appeared double.
