释义 |
disembodied, ppl. a.|dɪsɪmˈbɒdɪd| [f. disembody + -ed1.] 1. Divested (as a spirit) of a body; freed from that in which it has been embodied.
1742Young Nt. Th. iii. 452 The disembody'd power. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 135 The disembodied spirit does not enter dancing into the Elysian fields. 1835Thirlwall Greece I. vi. 197 Orion..chasing the disembodied beasts, which he had killed on the mountains, over the asphode meadow. 1872Longfellow Michael Angelo ii. ii. 10 Sudden as inspirations, are the whispers Of disembodied spirits. 2. Discharged from military incorporation.
1882C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xxiii. 180 He owned the..uniform he wore to be that of the late disembodied ‘militia’. |