bodilessadj.
/ˈbɒdɪlɪs/ 1. Having no body, no material form or being; incorporeal; without substance, unsubstantial.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [adjective]
bodilessa1398
matterlessa1398
unmateriala1398
unbodily1398
immaterialc1450
metaphysic1528
incorporeal1532
incorporate1540
incorporal1551
uncorporal1567
metaphysical1577
unphysical1593
limbless1594
corpseless1596
unbodied1609
immateriate1626
incorporeous1638
uncarnate1646
unmattered1647
incorporificated1651
unembodied1662
unessential1667
inessential1677
unelementarya1706
unelementateda1706
unincarnate1709
immechanical1715
asomatous1731
unincorporate1821
unfleshly1834
ethereal1836
non-material1847
non-physical1856
unincarnated1859
discorporate1888
transubstantial1892
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. ii. ii. 59 An aungel is substancia intellectual, alwey meuable, fre and bodiles.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. iii. f. 266 A vain bodylesse shew of fayth doth not iustifie.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iii. iv. 129 This is the very coynage of your braine, This bodilesse creation extacie is very cunning in.
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. vi. 58 Gum-water, very thinne and bodilesse.
1736 J. Swift Legion Club in Irish Misc. 19 Phantoms, bodiless and vain.
1868 F. W. Robertson Serm. 4th Ser. xxix. 221 Man becomes for ever a bodiless spirit.
2. Wanting the trunk; trunkless.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > [adjective]
maimed1340
remuled1481
mutilate1525
dismembered1552
trunked1552
martyred1567
bodiless1587
limbless1594
mutilated1598
memberless1611
maim1653
concised1660
dislimbed1662
truncated1731
obtruncate1805
lop-limbed1809
decurtate1859
1587 Censure loyall Subj. (Collier) 9 My eies saw their traiterous harts burned, and bodilesse heads aduanced to view.
1810 R. Southey Curse of Kehama xi. 117 Two winged Hands came in, Armless and bodyless.
1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 29 219 The bodiless cherubs on our churchyard stones.
Derivatives
ˈbodilessness n.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > immateriality > [noun]
incorporality1601
incorporeity1601
impalpability1605
unbodiliness1611
immateriality1629
etherealness1727
ethereality1811
immaterialism1824
etherealism1827
bodilessness1838
incorporeality1846
non-materiality1846
intangibility1847
unfleshlinessa1859
1838 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth (ed. 2) 1st Ser. 51 The living energy and definiteness and bodiliness of Homer's characters.
1869 R. E. Wallis tr. F. J. Delitzsch Syst. Biblical Psychol. (ed. 2) 513 In contradiction to..bodilessness.
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