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incorporeal, a. (n.)|ɪnkɔːˈpɔəriːəl|
Also 6 -iall.
[f. L. incorpore-us (Macrobius c 400) without body + -al1: cf. corporeal.]
Not corporeal.
A. adj.
1. Having no bodily or material structure; not composed of matter; immaterial.
1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 387/2 God may make the bodyly corporall water able to worke vpon the vnbodyed incorporiall soule. 1577Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1619) 190 A Nature incorruptible, incorporeall, free from earthly Matter. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. Apol. 2 Corporeal signs cannot work or make an impression upon incorporeal souls. 1713Bartelett Guardian No. 130 ⁋20 They are not actuated by any incorporeal being or spirit. 1838–9Hallam Hist. Lit. II. ii. iii. §9. 104 Two active incorporeal principles, heat and cold. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) I. 403 It has been argued that the soul is invisible and incorporeal.
2. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of immaterial beings.
1667Milton P.L. viii. 37 The sedentarie Earth,..receaves, As Tribute such a sumless journey brought Of incorporeal speed, her warmth and light. 1811W. R. Spencer Poems 200 Thy taste's quick glance of incorporeal sight. 1859I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 133 The incorporeal liberty of angelic existences!
3. Law. Having no material existence in itself, but attaching as a right or profit to some actual thing; esp. incorporeal hereditament (see quots.).
1628Coke On Litt. 9 a, Grant, Concessio, is properly of things incorporeall, which as hath been said) cannot passe without Deed. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. iii. 20 An incorporeal hereditament is a right issuing out of a thing corporate (whether real or personal) or concerning, or annexed to, or exercisible within, the same. 1802–12Bentham Rat. Jud. Evid. (1827) II. 555 note, Property called incorporeal, such as an annuity. 1844Williams Real Prop. (1877) 11 A house is corporeal, but the annual rent payable for its occupation is incorporeal.
4. In which the body is not (primarily) affected or concerned.
1887Giffen Pres. Addr. Econ. Sc. Sect. Brit. Assoc., Numbers employed in..what may be called incorporeal functions—that is, as teachers, artists, and the like.
B. n. (pl.) Things incorporeal.
1628Feltham Resolves II. lxix. 195 Nor is it onely true in Materials and Substances; but even in Spirits, in Incorporeals. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. 776 That Incorporeals are in No Place. 1793T. Taylor tr. Plato Introd. Timaeus 395 The divine nature..cannot be seen through the telescope, and incorporeals are not to be viewed with a microscopic eye. 1880Muirhead Gaius ii. §28 It is manifest that incorporeals are incapable of transfer by delivery.
Hence † incorˈporealism, the doctrine or belief that incorporeal spirit or substance exists. † incorˈporealist, one who holds this view. incorporeˈality, the quality of being incorporeal, incorporeity. † incorˈporealize v. intr., to maintain the theory of incorporeal existence.
1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. i. §22. 21 We pass to Pythagoras..it is well known..that he was a professed Incorporealist. Ibid. §26. 27 So..did all the other ancient Atomists..joyn Theology and Incorporealism with their Atomical Physiology. Ibid. §33. 40 The same persons did..theologize or incorporealize, asserting souls to be a substance really distinct from matter. 1846Geo. Eliot tr. Strauss' Life Jesus II. 268 The idea that demons shunned incorporeality. |