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Divested of a body; ceased to be corporal; incorporeal. The disembodied spirits of the dead. Bryant.

Disembodied. [R.]

The act of disembodying, or the state of being disembodied.

To divest of the or corporeal existence. Devils embodied and disembodied. Sir W. Scott.

rate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise. [Written also imbody.] Devils embodied and disembodied. Sir W. Scott. The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin. South.

The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter. The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose. Shak. I thought that I had died in sleep, And was a blessed ghost. Coleridge.

Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. Hooker.

Disunited from the body; disembodied; as, a separate spirit; the separate state of souls. Separate estate (Law), an estate limited to a married woman independent of her husband. -- Separate maintenance (Law), an allowance made to a wife by her husband under deed of separation. -- Sep"a*rate*ly, adv. -- Sep"a*rate*ne…

A pure or disembodied spirit. That to his only Son . . . every soul in heaven Shall bend the knee. Milton.

Specifically, a disembodied soul; the human soul after it has left the body. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. Eccl. xii. 7. Ye gentle spirits far away, With whom we shared the cup of grace. Keble.

To leave the body; to be disembodied; -- said of the soul or spirit. [R.] Chaucer.

Free from a corporeal body; disembodied; as, unembodied spirits. Byron.