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unˈbodied, a. and ppl. a.
[un-1 9 and un-2 8.]
1. Of souls or spirits: Having no body; not invested with a body; also, removed from the body, disembodied.
The two senses are not clearly distinguishable.
attrib.1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 387/1 By his power mai the bodily water as wel be a working instrument upon y⊇ vnbodied & vnbodily soule. 1589Warner Alb. Eng. vi. xxxii. (1592) 143 He wonne his Subiects loue,..But, as must ours, so lastly his vn-bodied Soule departs. 1643Digby Observ. Sir T. Browne's Relig. Med. 10 A Separated and unbodyed Soule. 1696Stanhope Chr. Pattern (1711) 177 To indulge those longings and pleasures, which refined and unbodied spirits feel. 1711Pope Temple Fame 101 These..call'd th' unbody'd shades To midnight banquets in the glimm'ring glades. 1721Tickell Epist. Death of Addison 48 In what new region to the just assign'd, What new employments please the unbodied mind? 1791Cowper Iliad ix. 510 No force arrests Or may constrain th' unbodied spirit back. 1810Crabbe Borough xxii. 327 There were they, hard by me in the tide, The three unbodied forms. 1827Keble Chr. Year 2 Lent v, Then may th' unbodied soul in safety fleet Through the dark curtains of the world above.
pred.1513Douglas æneid iii. v. 42 Oft wald sche cleip and call, and oneith stint, Apone the saulis that wnbodeit war, Besyde Hectouris void tomb standand thair. 1665J. Spencer Vulg. Proph. 71 The Souls of men become half unbodyed, while they hang upon the lips of these extraordinary persons. 1678Lively Oracles iii. §23 (1684) 270 We must be unbodied our selves before we can perfectly conceive what he is. 1726Pope Odyssey xxiv. 19 The spectres..rest at last, where souls unbodied dwell. c1750Collins Ode Superst. Highl. 60 When, o'er the wat'ry strath, or quaggy moss, They see the gliding ghosts unbodied troop. 1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. ix, My spirit shall resume it—if we may Unbodied choose a sanctuary.
2. Of abstract or immaterial things: Not having a corporeal form.
1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. i. iii. 16 That vnbodied figure of the thought That gaue't surmised shape. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iii. §37. 157 As Knowledge and Understanding only, which is Art naked, abstract and unbodied. c1800H. K. White On Survey Heavens v, Say, foolish one—can that unbodied fame..Give a new zest to bliss? 1820Shelley Skylark 15 Thou dost float and run; Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. a1851Moir Poems, Night-Hawk xiii, Most lonely voice! most wild unbodied scream!
3. Of substances or material things: Not having a definite form.
1630Davenant Just Italian Wks. (1673) 457 Wilt thou not bleed? not yet? I skirmish with unbodied air. 1651French Distill. v. 163 Salts unbodied are farre more acid then when they have assumed a body. 1652― Yorksh. Spa vii. 67 Those spirits,..becoming to be unbodied (for before they were incorporated with the water),..penetrate even the glass it self. 1845Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 215 Command of mind alone, and of the world Unbodied and all-lovely. |