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▪ I. incorporeity1|ɪnkɔːpəˈriːɪtɪ|
Also 7 erron. -iety.
[f. med.L. type *incorporeitās, f. incorpore-us incorporeal: see -ity; cf. corporeity.]
1. The quality or state of being incorporeal; immateriality; with pl., an incorporeal attribute or quality.
1601Deacon & Walker Spirits & Divels 89 An omni⁓presence, or (if so I may speake) an incorporeity, is truely in God. 1647H. More Song of Soul ii. ii. iii. Argt., The souls incorporeitie From powers rationall We prove. Ibid. ii. iii. i. iii, But still new mists he casts before our eyes, And now derides our prov'd incorporeities. 1660R. Coke Justice Vind. 12 The outward senses apprehend only the corporiety or substance of things..but the understanding only the incorporiety of things so seen. 1744Berkeley Siris §270 Incommunicable attributes of the Deity..such as infinity, immutability, indivisibility, incorporeity. 1840–9Sir J. Stephen Eccl. Biog. (1850) II. 421 The notion that, after death, man was to pass into a state of pure incorporeity.
b. In legal sense; see incorporeal 3.
a1735Madox in Gross Gild Merch. (1890) I. 104 One general Figurative notion of Incorporeity hath produced many fictions.
2. An incorporeal entity. rare.
1743J. Ellis Knowl. Div. Things (1811) 394 The first stumbling block was..to conceive an incorporeity, anything entirely void of matter.
▪ II. † incorpoˈreity2 nonce-wd.
[f. incorpor-ate v., after prec.]
The quality of being incorporated.
1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) II. 189 The merchants became a Bank and South Sea Company, and the six hundred fighting men a regiment, by having incorporeity and regimentality introduced among them. |