释义 |
disembody, v.|dɪsɪmˈbɒdɪ| [f. dis- 6 + embody.] 1. trans. To separate (a soul) from the body; to deliver or free (anything) from the form in which it is embodied.
1714Addison Spect. No. 571 ⁋9 Our souls, when they are disembodied..will..be always sensible of the divine presence. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets x. 339 Disembodying the sentiments which were incarnated in simple images. 1877Sparrow Serm. xiv. 186 So attuned was his [Enoch's] soul to heavenly things..that it was not thought fit to disembody it. 2. To discharge from military embodiment, as in the case of the militia at the close of each annual period of training.
1762Act 2 Geo. III, c. 20 (T.) If the same [corps] shall be embodied, then, within two months after, it shall be disembodied, and returned to the respective counties. 1769Lloyd's Evening Post 27–30 Oct. 413/3 On Friday the Hertfordshire Militia were disembodied at St. Alban's. |