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† diˈscarnate, a.
[ad. late L. type *discarnāt-us (for L. dē-carnāt-us: see de- I. 6), f. dis- 4 + carn-em flesh, carnāt-us fleshy; cf. It. (di)scarnato, Sp. descarnado, OF. descarné, mod.F. décharné.]
†1. Stripped of flesh. Obs. rare.
1661Glanvill Van. Dogm. 143 A memory, like a sepulchre, furnished with a load of broken and discarnate bones.
2. Divested of the flesh or the body, disembodied.
1895Westm. Gaz. 5 Nov. 2/3 Any à priori belief in a discarnate existence of one's personality. a1901Myers Hum. Pers. (1903) II. 274 We cannot simply admit the existence of discarnate spirits as inert or subsidiary phenomena. 1901J. H. Hyslop in Proc. Soc. Psychical Research XVI. 216 We ought to expect a priori that a discarnate memory should be defective in its communications from a transcendental world. 1920Public Opinion 9 July 34/3 It is rash to claim that a given phenomenon..must..be due to discarnate influences. 1922E. Phillpotts Grey Room iv. 106 This death-dealing ghost, or discarnate but conscious being.
So † diˈscarnated ppl. a., deprived of ‘flesh’ or bodily form, disembodied: the reverse of incarnated; Obs. discarˈnation, disembodiment.
1728Earbery tr. Burnet's St. Dead I. 66 Jesus went thro' all, for he went to the Region of Humane Souls, and being discarnated, he was a living rational Soul, like to a humane one. 1901Contemp. Rev. Aug. 221 The discarnation of personality in death. |