CORANACH. 405 CORBIE STEPS. The -woTd. in one or other of its forms, occurs in the writings of many of the ancient Scottish authors: "Cryand for you the cairfull corrinoch." hir D. Lindsay. "Cryand the i-orynoeh on hie." Hattlenfnnrluw. "Be he the correnoch had done shout.'* DmiUnr, The coranacli lias long since fallen into disuse among the Highlanders. The funeral lament per- formed on the bagpipes, which may l)e considered as an instrumental coranacli, lingered on till the latter half of the eigliteenth century. For specimens of the coranach see Sir Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake, and accompanying notes; Crofton Croker's Researches in tlic 8011II1 of Ireland; and lilaelKiruod's Magazine, vols. xiii. and xxiii. COR ANGLAIS, kor ax'glu' (Fr„ English horn). A wooden wind instrument of the double reed species, the Ijody of which was formerly bent in the form of part of a circle, which accounts for its being called a horn. It is merel.y a large oboe (called in German Altoboc, i.e. alto of the oboe ) , and is usually played on by oboe-players. Its compass is two octaves and a fifth from E or E flat, fourth line in the bass, to B flat above the treble stafl'. It is a transposing instrument, and music for it is ^ritten a fifth above its real tones. Also the name of an eight-foot organ stop occasionally used in French and English pipe organs. For illustration, see Music.L In- STKUMEXTS. COBATO, ko-ra'to. A city of Italy, in the Province of Bari delle Puglie, situated about 20 miles west of the city of Bari (llap: Italy, L 6). Xot far from Corato are the ruins of the Castel del ilonte, built by the Emperor Frederick II., in which the sons of ^lanfred (q.v.) were im- prisoned. The town carries on a trade in cattle and leather, the' surrounding country being well adapted for grazing. A good deal of tartar is manufactured here. Population (commune), in 1881, 30.552; in 1901, 41,573. CORAY, ko-ra', CORAIS, or KORAIS, Ad- AMAXTio.s (1748-1833). A Greek classical scholar and patriot. He was the son of a mer- chant in Smyrna. He engaged in trade in Am- sterdam, but in 1782 went to Montpellier to study medicine and. natural history. In 1788 he settled in Paris. Coray was one of the first to attempt to revive modern Greek literature, and his political tracts did much to arouse the Greeks to a successful revolt against Turkish rule. Of his classical works the most im- jiortant is his edition of Ileliodorus's romance, Efliiojiinn nistories, his commentaries on the writings of Hippocrates, and his editions of XcTiophon's ilemorahUln, Plato's Goryias, and Stralio. His work, Aincta, on mi'lanfics sur la littcralnre grecqiie moderne (1828-35), did much to elevate the Greek vernacular to a literary language. Consult his Autobiography in Greek (Paris, 1833) and a Latin translation by Schultze (Liegnitz, 1834) ; also Sinner, Life and ^Vol■l:s of Kara is (Zurich, 1837) : and By water, in Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. i. (London, 1881). COR'BAN (Heb. qorhan, offering, from i/arnh, to draw near, to offer). A term used by the Jews to denote anvthina devoted to the Deifv. In the Prie.stly Code it is the regular word tor an oU'ering to God of any kind. Such an object was necessarily sacred and cimld not be applied to profane use. So the wind came to lie a general exjiression of |ir(iliil>itioii and was used when there was no intentiim of devoting a thing to God, Certain of the schools held that the mere pronunciation of it, however rashly, constituted a vow. Hence it became a convenient makeshift to avoid a distasteful duty. Thus a son might say his money or other property was corban and so escape the obligation to use it for the support or need of a parent. This interpreta- tion was rebuked by Jesus (Matt. xv. 5; Mark vii. 11.). CORBEIL, kor'bfi'y' (Lat. CorbuUnum). A town in the Department of Seine-et-Oise, France, at the junction of the Essonne with the Seine, 18 miles south-southeast of Paris (Map: France, J 3). From the tenth to the twelfth century it was the chief town of a powerful countship. It was besieged by the Duke of Burgundy in 1418, by the Huguenots in loti2. and b.v Alexander Far- nese in 1590, The Gothic Church of Saint Spire was rebuilt in the fifteenth century. The town has Hour-mills, print-works, cotton-factories, and manufactures of watches, clocks, etc. Popula- tion, in 1901, 9302, COR'BEL (OF, corbel, Ft. corhcau, basket, from Lat. corbis, basket). A bracket projecting from a wall and forming an integral part of it, so as to receive and support any sujierincumbent weight. In France it is not a corbel unless it has parallel sides and projects more than its height, but the English usage is more general and includes those slight projections, called in French culs-de-lainpe, from which vaulting-ribs or moldings spring when they do not rise from the floor. See Bk.^cket: Cantilevek; Console. COR'BENIC. The name of a stronghold erected by Galafres after his conversion as a shrine for the Holy Grail. It is called also the Palace of Adventure, and in it Galafres, chris- tened Alphasan, is stabbed to death, COB'BETT, Julian Stafford (1854—), An English lawyer born in Surrey, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, He became counsel of the Xavy in 1901. In addition to monographs on Sir Francis Drake and other English celebri- ties, in the work entitled, Eiiijlish Men of Action, he wrote the popular romances. The Fall of Asr/ard (1880); For God and Gold (1887); Kophetua XIII. ( 1809) ; and .1 Business in Great Waters (1895), CORBIE, kor'be'. A town in the Department of La Somme, France, formerly a fortress, ten miles northeast of Amiens. It has cotton and woolen factories. Population, in 1901, 4133. Corbie owes its fame to the Benedictine abbey founded here in 062 by Queen Balthilde. The Abbot enjoyed the title of Earl and a munificent income. Of the abbey, the Church of Saint Pierre alone remains. The banished King Desi- derius was sent here by Charlemagne in 774. Corvei (q.v. ) owes its origin to Corbie. CORBIE STEPS, CORBEL STEPS, or CROW STEPS (a Scotch corruption of corbel slcjjs, from OF. corbel, corbel, but confused by po|)ular etymology with Scotch corbie, crow, from ME., OF. corbin, Lat. corvinus, crow, and supposed to mean steps for crows) . In archi- tecture, the succession of steps with which the
