incorporeal

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Nothing incorporeal, they maintained, can be affected by or affect that which is corporeal; body alone can affect body.

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  1. adjective Lacking material form or substance. See Synonyms at immaterial.
  2. adjective Law Of or relating to property or an asset that does not have value in material form, as a right or patent.

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  • But since my essence is incorporeal, it cannot suffer. —  May, Julian - Boreal Moon 2 - Ironcrown Moon
  • He adds that sleep is produced either when the parts of the soul diffused over the whole of the body concentrate themselves, or when they disperse and escape by the pores of the body; for particles emanate from all bodies It must also be observed, that I use the word incorporeal in the usual acceptation of the word, to express that which is in itself conceived as such. —  The Life of Epicurus
  • He shuddered, shifted out of phase, turned incorporeal, and felt the sudden swift sliding of the red light Just before he spun away through the stone wall of the niche, he glimpsed, behind the wondering face of Jhoira, one of Kerrick's fingers draw inward and his eye slit open It's worth the effort, ; Urza insisted where he sat in his high study. —  J
  • But it is evident that no body can act on what is incorporeal, but rather the reverse: because things incorporeal and immaterial have a power more formal and more universal than any corporeal things whatever. —  Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition
  • For that man is unable to imagine the things that reason considers, is either because they cannot be imagined, such as incorporeal things; or because of the weakness of the imaginative power, due to some organic indisposition EIGHTH ARTICLE [I-II, Q. —  Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English incorporealle, from Latin incorporeus : in-, not; see in-1 + corporeus, consisting of a body; see corporeal.

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  1. from in- + corporeal. Cf. Spanish incorpóreo = Italian incorporeo, from Latin incorporeus, bodiless, from in- privative + corporeus, bodily: see corporeal.
 

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/ɪnkɔrˈpoʊrəəl/
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