incorporeal

• “Nor does it follow from hence that spirits are nothing: for they have dimensions and are therefore really bodies; though that name in common speech be given to such bodies only as are visible or palpable; that is, that have some degree of opacity: but for spirits, they call them incorporeal, which is a name of more honour, and may therefore with more piety be attributed to God”

  Leviathan

• “Furthermore, More attempted to answer materialists like Thomas Hobbes whom he perceived as an atheist on account of his dismissal of the idea of incorporeal substance as non-sensical.”

  The Cambridge Platonists

• “In this way More sought to demonstrate that the idea of incorporeal substance, or spirit, was as intelligible as that of corporeal substance, i.e. body.”

  The Cambridge Platonists

• “Being defined as incorporeal substances, as purely spiritual beings, angels are not thus decomposable.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Angels and Us

• “[59] _Stromata_, V, 12: "If, then, abstracting all that belongs to bodies and things called incorporeal, we cast ourselves into the greatness of Christ, and then advance into immensity by holiness, we may reach somehow to the conception of the Almighty, _knowing not what He is, but what He is not_.”

  The Basis of Early Christian Theism

• “And then something, instinct maybe, or whatever you like to label the incorporeal look-out in our psychological crow's nest, whispered to her that it might be wise if she awoke to her surroundings.”

  Leonie of the Jungle

• “Other assets, what we used to call incorporeal hereditaments back in law school -- fair workin 'knowledge of the cattle an' horse business.”

  Prairie Flowers

• “If, then, we abstract all that belongs to bodies and things called incorporeal, we cast ourselves into the greatness of Christ, and thence advancing into immensity by holiness, we may reach somehow to the conception of the Almighty, knowing not what He is, but knowing what He is not.”

  A Source Book for Ancient Church History

• “In all which there is no colour at all for the burning of incorporeal, that is to say, impatible souls.”

  Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill

• “Nor does it follow from hence that spirits are nothing: for they have dimensions and are therefore really bodies; though that name in common speech be given to such bodies only as are visible or palpable; that is, that have some degree of opacity: but for spirits, they call them incorporeal, which is a name of more honour, and may therefore with more piety be attributed to God Himself; in whom we consider not what attribute expresseth best His nature, which is incomprehensible, but what best expresseth our desire to honour Him.”

  Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill

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