单词 | discarnate |
释义 | discarnateadj. 1. Stripped of flesh. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [adjective] > stripped or made bare > stripped of flesh discarnate?a1425 unfleshed1607 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 145 (MED) And þe dindime discarnate [?c1425 Paris vnflesched; L. discarnato] & þe testicule yraised vp toward þe wombe, be þe dindime sewed. 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing 143 A memory, like a sepulchre, furnished with a load of broken and discarnate bones. 1772 J. Entick New Spelling Dict. (new ed.) 103/1 Discarnate, stripped of flesh. 1821 Morning Post 18 Jan. 2/4 Part of the scull was completely discarnate. 2011 J. R. Marcaida & J. Pimentel in D. Bleichmar & P. C. Mancall Collecting across Cultures ii. v. 106 The skulls in these paintings are naked, discarnate bones. 2. Deprived of or having no physical body; disembodied.Now the more usual sense. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [adjective] > spiritual or immaterial > disembodied unbodied1513 excorporatea1629 disbodied1662 separateda1676 discarnated1706 disembodied1742 excarnate1858 decarnated1865 disincarnate1881 discarnate1882 decarnate1886 1882 A. T. Jones Prairie Idyl 124 When they from mortal sight shall glide, Discarnate (never name them dead). 1895 Westm. Gaz. 5 Nov. 2/3 Any à priori belief in a discarnate existence of one's personality. 1901 Proc. Soc. Psychical Res. 16 216 We ought to expect a priori that a discarnate memory should be defective in its communications from a transcendental world. 1922 E. Phillpotts Grey Room iv. 106 This death-dealing ghost, or discarnate but conscious being. 1996 Kindred Spirit Summer 38 Stephen says a discarnate doctor works ‘through’ him. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?a1425 |
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