Incorporeal

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Incorporeal \In`cor*po"re*al\, a. [Pref. in- not + corporeal:
     cf. L. incorporeus. Cf. {Incorporal}.]
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     1. Not corporeal; not having a material body or form; not
        consisting of matter; immaterial.
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              Thus incorporeal spirits to smaller forms
              Reduced their shapes immense.         --Milton.
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              Sense and perception must necessarily proceed from
              some incorporeal substance within us. --Bentley.
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     2. (Law) Existing only in contemplation of law; not capable
        of actual visible seizin or possession; not being an
        object of sense; intangible; -- opposed to {corporeal}.
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     {Incorporeal hereditament}. See under {Hereditament}.
  
     Syn: Immaterial; unsubstantial; bodiless; spiritual.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  incorporeal
       adj : without material form or substance; "an incorporeal spirit"
             [syn: {immaterial}] [ant: {corporeal}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  100 Moby Thesaurus words for "incorporeal":
     Masan, airy, apparition, appearance, asomatous, astral,
     astral spirit, banshee, bodiless, control, decarnate, decarnated,
     departed spirit, discarnate, disembodied, disembodied spirit,
     duppy, dybbuk, ectoplasmic, eidolon, ethereal, etheric,
     extramundane, form, ghost, ghostish, ghostlike, ghostly, ghosty,
     grateful dead, guide, hant, haunt, idolum, immaterial,
     immateriality, impalpable, imponderable, incorporate,
     incorporeal being, incorporeity, insubstantial, intangible, larva,
     lemures, manes, materialization, metaphysical, nonmaterial,
     nonphysical, nonsubstantial, occult, oni, otherworldly, phantasm,
     phantasma, phantasmal, phantasmic, phantom, phantomic, phantomlike,
     poltergeist, presence, psychic, revenant, shade, shadow, shadowy,
     shape, shrouded spirit, specter, specterlike, spectral,
     spectral ghost, spirit, spiritual, spook, sprite, supernatural,
     theophany, transmundane, unconcrete, unearthly, unembodied,
     unextended, unfleshly, unphysical, unsolid, unsubstanced,
     unsubstantial, unsubstantiality, unworldly, vision,
     walking dead man, wandering soul, weightless, wraith, wraithlike,
     wraithy, zombie