Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having no material body or form.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Stripped of flesh; fleshless.
  • Disembodied; disincarnate.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Stripped of flesh.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having no physical body or form.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[dis– + (in)carnate.]

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Examples

  • They could take charge of the situation and show that they had qualities of conscious intention—what we scientifically refer to as discarnate intention.

    The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011

  • They could take charge of the situation and show that they had qualities of conscious intention—what we scientifically refer to as discarnate intention.

    The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011

  • They could take charge of the situation and show that they had qualities of conscious intention—what we scientifically refer to as discarnate intention.

    The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011

  • They could take charge of the situation and show that they had qualities of conscious intention—what we scientifically refer to as discarnate intention.

    The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011

  • But the Statisticalists cannot accept the idea of discarnate consciousness, since they conceive of consciousness purely as a function of the physical brain.

    Last Enemy H. Beam Piper 1934

  • There must be, moreover, what one may call a discarnate status -- an order, that is, of relationships and activities in which discarnate personality realizes and expresses itself.

    Modern Religious Cults and Movements Gaius Glenn Atkins 1912

  • It is curious and probably fitting that the first clear evidence for discarnate intention was taught to me by my deceased mother.

    The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011

  • However, it is now time to present the complete and controversial story and the deeper lesson of discarnate intention that my mother tried to teach me.

    The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011

  • What is curious is that as time went on and the research unfolded, the evidence for discarnate intention became ever more unexpected, seemingly unbelievable, and increasingly incontrovertible.

    The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011

  • If survival of consciousness is real, and therefore discarnate intention—including the genuine capacity for intelligence, creativity, choice, playfulness, and willfulness—exists after we die, then a major premise of many spiritual philosophies is plausible—that life after death exists.

    The Sacred Promise Phd Gary E. Schwartz 2011

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  • JM reckons nobody should be discarnate.

    February 4, 2011