unmaterialadj.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. ii. ii. 60 In so moche he is þe more parfite in contemplacioun of spiritual and vnmatereal þinges [L. immaterialium].

1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. C.iv If they be sycke eyther incline to materiall sickenes, or to vnmateriall.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xiv. 236 An vnmateriall substance, which hath being of it selfe.

1602 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) xiii. lxxix. 326 Vnpassiue, vnmateriall, vncompounded, Infinite.

1642 J. Etherington Deeds of Dr. Denison sig. A2 Not to reply to every word or saying of yours unmateriall. I charge you with falsehood in this, that you say I complained first against you.

?1744 Just Reply Apol. address'd to Noble Lord 8 A fellow infinitely his inferior, who had indeed provok'd him..by the unweigh'd and impolitic refusal of a favour unmaterial enough.

1822 J. Brewster Testimonies to Truths Nat. & Revealed Relig. ix. 196 If this notion of unmaterial spirit may have perhaps some difficulties in it, not easy to be explained, we have therefore no more reason to deny or doubt the existence of such spirits.

1883 W. M. Rossetti in Athenæum 15 Dec. 776/2 The scholar who constantly lives an inward and unmaterial life.

1934 W. Lewis Men without Art (1987) iii. ii. 208 Materialist or ‘power’ values have taken the place of the religious unmaterial values.

2006 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 25 Mar. (Books section) 5 If you reflect seriously on what you actually need to be happy, you will—argued Epicurus—arrive at a list of quite unmaterial priorities.