discarnate
/dɪsˈkɑːnət
/adjective
(Of a person or being) not having a physical body: methods for communicating with the dead or with discarnate spirits...
- He referred to the artist in society as special - as a discarnate man who has integral awareness.
- The incarnate Son is as it were forcibly made discarnate in death, and his divine-human spirit returns to his Father and his God, just as in human death the dust returns to the earth.
- Well, that Free Age thread the other day seemed to be discussing the prophecies of an alleged discarnate entity called Seth.
Origin
Late 19th century: from dis- 'without' + Latin caro, carn- 'flesh' or late Latin carnatus 'fleshy'.
Rhymes
- flash burn
- flash card
- flash crash
- flashcube
- flash drive
- flasher
- flash fiction
- flash flood
- flash-freeze
- flash-freezer
- flash-fry
- flashgun
- flashily
- flashiness
- flashing
- flash in the pan
- flash jack
- flash lamp
- flashlight
- flash memory
- flash mob
- flash mobber
- flash mobbing
- flash (or chuck) a browneye
- flash over