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Incorporeal adj.

Not corporeal; not having a material body or form; not consisting of matter; immaterial. "Thus incorporeal spirits to smaller forms Reduced their shapes immense." "Sense and perception must necessarily proceed from some incorporeal substance within us."

(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.

Synonyms: Immaterial; unsubstantial; bodiless; spiritual.

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Etymology of 'Incorporeal'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Incorporeal" Quotes from Famous Books

... poet-composer's own words: "Goethe places around Faust at the beginning of the scene four ghostly figures, who utter strange and obscure words. What Goethe has placed on the stage we place in the orchestra, submitting sounds instead of words, in order to render more incorporeal and impalpable the hallucinations that trouble Faust on the brink of death." The ghostly figures referred to by Boito are the four "Gray Women" of Goethe—Want, Guilt, Care, and Necessity. Boito thinks like a symphonist, ...

— A Book of Operas - Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music • Henry Edward Krehbiel

Words linked to "Incorporeal" : spiritual, unembodied, corporality, discorporate, unbodied, disembodied, corporeality, immaterial, bodiless, materiality