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dy or substance; material; -- opposed to spiritual or immaterial. His omnipotence That to corporeal substance could add Speed almost spiritual. Milton. Corporeal property, such as may be seen and handled (as opposed to incorporeal, which can not be seen or handled, and exists only in contemplation). Mozley & W.…

Materialism. Cudworth.

One who denies the reality of spiritual existences; a materialist. Some corporealists pretended . . . to make a world without a God. Bp. Berkeley.

The state of being corporeal; corporeal existence.

In the body; in a bodily form or manner.

Corporeality; corporeity.

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.

Comprehending or including all bodies; embracing all substance. [R.] Cudworth.

A mode of acquiring property, by which the owner of a corporeal substance which receives an addition by growth, or by labor, has a right to the part or thing added, or the improvement (provided the thing is not changed into a different species). Thus, the owner of a cow becomes the owner of her calf.…

Aërial; ethereal; incorporeal; visionary. [Poetic] M. Arnold.

The act of dividing anything, corporeal or intellectual, for the purpose of examining its parts; analysis; as, the anatomy of a discourse.

Without a material body; incorporeal. Todd.

Without material form; incorporeal. Phantoms bodiless and vain. Swift.

Corporeality. Minsheu.

Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal; consisting of matter. You are a mere spirit, and have no knowledge of the bodily part of us. Tatler.

Having a body or substance; not spiritual; material. In this sense now usually written corporeal. Milton. A corporal heaven . . . .where the stare are. Latimer. What seemed corporal melted As breath into the wind. Shak.