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incorporeal /ˌɪnkɔːˈpɔːrɪəl /adjective1Not composed of matter; having no material existence: a supreme but incorporeal being called God...- The Stoics drew a fundamental distinction between two realms of being, a material realm of bodies and states of affairs and an incorporeal realm of events.
- They are spiritual beings, incorporeal intelligences, and they may ‘have their origins in personalities’.
- Since the causes are immaterial, intellectual and eternal, so their created effects are essentially incorporeal, immaterial, intellectual, and eternal.
Synonyms intangible, impalpable, non-material, non-physical; bodiless, unembodied, disembodied; ethereal, unsubstantial, insubstantial, airy, aerial; spiritual, ghostly, spectral, phantom, wraithlike, transcendental, unearthly, supernatural; unreal, imaginary, illusory, chimerical, hallucinatory rare immaterial, discarnate, disincarnate, unbodied, phantasmal, phantasmic 1.1 Law Having no physical existence.They could be patrimonial things or extra-patrimonial things; common things or sacred things; principal things or accessorial things; corporeal things or incorporeal things....- He pointed out that legal recognition of trade marks as a species of incorporeal property was first accorded by the Court of Chancery in the first half of the 19th century.
- It is not an incorporeal right, such as, for example, an easement, which appertains to Mr McArdle's land and adversely affects the registered Red Land.
Derivativesincorporeality /ˌɪnkɔːpɔːrɪˈalɪti / noun ...- My basic form expands and this very expansion from an uncertain core makes for the feel of incorporeality in my paintings.
- There is an element of incorporeality - a deeply felt relationality that when attended to serves to bind us to place.
- The intermingling of mediums scrambled distinctions between flatness and depth, stasis and motion, tactility and incorporeality.
incorporeally adverb ...- For such is the nature of intellectual existences, that they can mingle with one another and with bodies, incorporeally and invisibly.
- Fourth, He would incarnate somewhere else in one of the three aforesaid ways, but incorporeally and help the earth in a general way.
- In one usage, it means anything believed without absolute certainty, i.e. ‘you have faith that you will not pass incorporeally through your chair.’
incorporeity /ˌɪnkɔːpəˈriːɪti/ /ˌɪnkɔːpəˈreɪɪti/ noun ...- In its incorporeity, it is a ready scapegoat word, like State, Establishment, the Right, the Left.
- A church is the ideal place for a work concerning the incorporeity of vocation.
- Thought of the divine incorporeity was suggested by absence of any altar-image.
OriginLate Middle English: from Latin incorporeus, from in- 'not' + corporeus (from corpus, corpor- 'body') + -al. |