incorporeal
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- IPA(key): /ɪŋkɔː(ɹ)ˈpɔːɹiəl/
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incorporeal (comparative more incorporeal, superlative most incorporeal)
- Having no material form or physical substance.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC:
- Thus incorporeal spirits to smaller forms / Reduced their shapes immense.
- 1692, Richard Bentley, [A Confutation of Atheism] (please specify the sermon), London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock], published 1692–1693:
- Sense and perception must necessarily proceed from some incorporeal substance within us.
- (law) Relating to an asset that does not have a material form; such as a patent.
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- (having no material form): disembodied; intangible; uncorporeal
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having no material form or physical substance
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