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incorporeal

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in·cor·po·re·al  (nkôr-pôr-l, -pr-)
adj.
1. Lacking material form or substance. See Synonyms at immaterial.
2. Law Of or relating to property or an asset that does not have value in material form, as a right or patent.

[Middle English incorporealle, from Latin incorporeus : in-, not; see in-1 + corporeus, consisting of a body; see corporeal.]

incor·pore·ali·ty (-l-t) n.
incor·pore·al·ly adv.

incorporeal [ˌɪnkɔːˈpɔːrɪəl]
adj
1. without material form, body, or substance
2. (Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) spiritual or metaphysical
3. (Law) Law having no material existence but existing by reason of its annexation of something material, such as an easement, touchline, copyright, etc. an incorporeal hereditament
incorporeally  adv
incorporeity  [ɪnˌkɔːpəˈriːɪtɪ], incorporeality n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.incorporeal - without material form or substance; "an incorporeal spirit"
unbodied - having no body
corporeal, material - having material or physical form or substance; "that which is created is of necessity corporeal and visible and tangible" - Benjamin Jowett
Translations
incorporeal [ˌɪnkɔːpɔːrɪəl] ADJ (liter) → incorpóreo
incorporeal


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Athelny spoke of the mystical writers of Spain, of Teresa de Avila, San Juan de la Cruz, Fray Luis de Leon; in all of them was that passion for the unseen which Philip felt in the pictures of El Greco: they seemed to have the power to touch the incorporeal and see the invisible.
In that hour she repeated what the merciful eyes of solitude have looked on for ages in the spiritual struggles of man-- she besought hardness and coldness and aching weariness to bring her relief from the mysterious incorporeal might of her anguish: she lay on the bare floor and let the night grow cold around her; while her grand woman's frame was shaken by sobs as if she had been a despairing child.
Thus incorporeal Spirits to smallest forms Reduc'd thir shapes immense, and were at large, Though without number still amidst the Hall Of that infernal Court.
 
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