bodiless

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bod·i·less

(bŏd′ē-lĭs)

adj.

Having no body, form, or substance; incorporeal.

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bodiless

(ˈbɒdɪlɪs)

adj

having no body or substance; incorporeal or insubstantial

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bod•i•less

(ˈbɒd i lɪs, -ɪ lɪs)

adj.

having no body.

[1350–1400]

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Adj.	1.	bodiless - not having a material body; "bodiless ghosts" discorporate, disembodied, unembodied, unbodied incorporeal, immaterial - without material form or substance; "an incorporeal spirit"
	2.	bodiless - having no trunk or main part; "a bodiless head" bodyless unbodied - having no body

bodiless

adjective

Having no body, form, or substance:

discarnate, disembodied, immaterial, incorporeal, insubstantial, metaphysical, nonphysical, spiritual, unbodied, uncorporal, unsubstantial.

Translations

kroppsløs

bodiless

adj → körperlos

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The wanton airs, from the tree-top, Laughingly through the lattice drop -- The bodiless airs, a wizard rout, Flit through thy chamber in and out, And wave the curtain canopy So fitfully -- so fearfully -- Above the closed and fringed lid

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Would now the wind but had a body; but all the things that most exasperate and outrage mortal man, all these things are bodiless, but only bodiless as objects, not as agents.

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The creature who carried the bodiless head now set its burden upon the ground and the latter immediately crawled toward one of the bodies that was lying near by.

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Airy figures, absolutely bodiless ideas, and forms of unsubstantial beauty came and danced before her, imprinting their momentary footsteps on beams of light.

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Nevertheless, in view of Milton's rhetorical affiliation with the discourse condemning intermeddling "hands," his association of "helping" hands with the mental work of authorship, and his recuperative strategies involved with acknowledging a manuscript, the bodiless author seems a successful contender against an authority which is all hands.

Printing the mind: the economics of authorship in 'Areopagitica.' (poem by John Milton)

Fielding" named there has been taken to be Henry Fielding--really the only plausible candidate--and the poems therefore his earliest known work in print, frustratingly represented however by these bodiless titles alone.

Early poems by - and not by - Fielding

That's why his characters never move, and their expressions never change; why voices so often issue from outside the panel, or from within a distant White House (don't have to draw the speakers); why, in addition to the point it makes, George Bush is portrayed as a bodiless dot .

A senseless war?

With the song's repetitive, ascending-to-nowhere melody removed, and its chorus of "cold, cold heart" and "sacrifice" now rasped out in a bodiless electronic voice, John appears to be summoning the dark lord rather than crooning relationship advice to the unhappy couple.

Philip Brophy: NEON PARC

2 & 3), decorated by Giovanni da Udine, symmetry is the only rule guiding the proliferation of conjoined flora, fauna, cherubs and birds: smiling faces dangle bodiless on bow-knotted strings; winged torsos taper to points, balancing on platforms of double bird heads; tiny leopards strut across tenuous wires while songbirds the same size as them fly just below.

Horrible art histories

Its implication consists of a bodiless leper come to rest inside of himself as something other than explosive etching or failure.

From General scatterings & comment

Dear reader: What I started to tell you had something to do with hunger but the mink was demon turned bodiless terror.

Karen Rigby. Chinoiserie

She has leaves whirling in the wind under a streetlight by a bus stop like dervishes, then settling back as if sighing "like a ripple of congregants/ into their pews." She describes "bodiless clothes" at a mom and pop drycleaner's swishing forward on their conveyor, "all potential, all redemption." A bad day is "black as hell's/ receiving dock." Nostalgic for New York, she recalls tenements with "flaming suns leaping/ from window to window." In a sequence of poems about a demented and dying father, she intuits