Meaning of INCORPOREAL
Pronunciation: | | `inkor'powreeul
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| Definition: | | [adj] without material form or substance; "an incorporeal spirit" |
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| Synonyms: | | bodiless, discorporate, disembodied, immaterial, spiritual, unbodied, unembodied |
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| Antonyms: | | corporeal, material | |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \In`cor*po"re*al\, a. [Pref. in- not + corporeal:
cf. L. incorporeus. Cf. {Incorporal}.]
1. Not corporeal; not having a material body or form; not
consisting of matter; immaterial.
Thus incorporeal spirits to smaller forms Reduced
their shapes immense. --Milton.
Sense and perception must necessarily proceed from
some incorporeal substance within us. --Bentley.
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}.
{Incorporeal hereditament}. See under {Hereditament}.
Syn: Immaterial; unsubstantial; bodiless; spiritual.
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