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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.

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

Without a material body; incorporeal. Todd.

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

ost 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.

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

Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir. Blackstone.

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

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

To render immaterial or incorporeal. Immateralized spirits. Glanvill.

Not material; intangible; incorporeal. "Impalpable, void, and bodiless." Holland.

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

Incorporeality. [Obs.] Bailey.

Incorporeally. [Obs.]

Not consisting of matter; not having a material body; incorporeal; spiritual. Moses forbore to speak of angles, and things invisible, and incorporate. Sir W. Raleigh.

The quality of being incorporeal; immateriality. Berkeley.