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unemˈbodied, ppl. a. Also unim-. [un-1 8.] 1. Not invested with a body; incorporeal.
1662Glanvill Lux Orient. xiii. (1682) 104 To urge, that there are..purely unembodied Spirits in the Universe. 1719De Foe Crusoe ii. (Globe) 363, I am satisfied our Spirits embodied have a Converse with..the Spirits unembodied. a1766F. Sheridan Nourjahad (1767) 196 He felt as it were unimbodied, and an involuntary adjuration burst from his lips. 1848R. I. Wilberforce Incarnation xii. 393 The natural intercourse of the mind with its unembodied Creator. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. xiv. iii. VI. 468 Matter..subsisted potentially only,..unembodied, immaterial. 2. Not embodied, in various senses.
1760Ann. Reg., Chron. 189 The charge of pay and cloathing for the unembodied militia. 1841Miall in Nonconf. I. 17 A mere theory,..an abstract unembodied principle. |