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

The doctrine that immaterial substances or spiritual being exist, or are possible.

One who believes in or professes, immaterialism.

The state or quality of being immaterial or incorporeal; as, the immateriality of the soul.

To render immaterial or incorporeal. Immateralized spirits. Glanvill.

In an immaterial manner; without matter or corporeal substance.

The state or quality of being immaterial; immateriality.

of, or pertaining to, a material body 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…

A spirit, or immaterial being, holding a middle place between men and deities in pagan mythology. The demon kind is of an inSydenham.

A mode of expressing abstract or immaterial ideas by words which suggest pictures or images from the physical world; pictorial language; a trope; hence, any deviation from the plainest form of statement. To represent the imagination under the figure of a wing. Macaulay.

or fall away; volatile; uncertain; evanescent; liable to fade; -- applied to material and immaterial things; as, fugitive colors; a fugitive idea. The me more tender and fugitive parts, the leaves . . . of vegatables. Woodward. Fugitive compositions, Such as are short and occasional, and so published that they quickly…

Immaterial. [Obs.] Bacon.

Immaterial; incorporeal; spiritual. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

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.

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

The quality of being incorporeal; immateriality. Berkeley.

lling; an unobserved or imperceptible progress or passing away,; -- restricted usually to immaterial things, or to figurative uses. The lapse to indolence is soft and imperceptible. Rambler. Bacon was content to wait the lapse of long centuries for his expected revenue of fame. I. Taylor.

Unimportant; immaterial. [Obs.]

uals in one rank or degree; an order; a class. The next range of beings above him are the immaterial intelligences. Sir M. Hale.