Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not in bodily form; incorporeal.
- Not consisting of matter; immaterial.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Immaterial; incorporeal; spiritual.
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- adjective Obsolete form of
incorporeal .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But many necessary things are subject to divine providence: for instance, the stability of incorporal substances and of the heavenly bodies.
The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997
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Yudhishthira said, 'Tell me, O snake, how the incorporal being's translation to heaven, its perception by the senses and its enjoyment of the immutable fruits of its actions
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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The poor old mill-horse, turned loose in the pasture on Sundays, seems sadly to miss his accustomed daily round of weary labor; the retired tallow-chandler, whose story has pointed so many morals and adorned so many tales, would have died of inertia and ennui in less than six months after his retirement from business, had not his successor kindly allowed him to help on melting-days; and methinks the very ghosts of certain busy and energetic men must fret and fume at the idle and inactive state of their shadowy and incorporal selves; nor, unless -- as some hope and believe -- we are to have our familiar and customary tasks and duties to perform in heaven, could their souls be happy and contented in Paradise.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various
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