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The state of having a body; the state of being corporeal; materiality. The one attributed corporeity to God. Bp. Stillingfleet. Those who deny light to be matter, do not therefore deny its corporeity. Coleridge.

A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.

Pertaining to an emporium; relating to merchandise. [Obs.] Johnson.

The thin inner coat of certain spores.

The thickish outer coat of certain spores.

The extreme outer wall of a spore; the epispore.

ration; on the spur of the moment; suddenly; extemporaneously; as, to write or speak extempore. Shak. -- a.

Not corporeal; not having a material body or form; not consisting of matter; immaterial. Thus incorporeal spirits to smaller forms Reduced their shapes immense. Milton. Sense and perception must necessarily proceed from some incorporeal substance within us. Bentley.

Existence without a body or material form; immateriality. Cudworth.

One who believes in incorporealism. Cudworth.

The state or quality of being incorporeal or bodiless; immateriality; incorporealism. G. Eliot.

In an incorporeal manner. Bacon.

The quality of being incorporeal; immateriality. Berkeley.

One of the spores produced by an isosporous organism.

One of the specially large spores of certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella, etc.

A large motile spore having four vibratile cilia; -- found in certain green algæ.

Any coral of the genus Madrepora; formerly, often applied to any stony coral.

One of the exceedingly minute spores found in certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella and Isoetes, which bear two kinds of spores, one very much smaller than the other. Cf. Macrospore.

A small motile spore furnished with two vibratile cilia, found in certain green algæ.

enus Millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal pores, or cells. The animals are hydroids, not Anthozoa. See Hydrocorallia.