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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Incorporeal \In`cor*po"re*al\, a. [Pref. in- not + corporeal:
cf L. incorporeus Cf {Incorporal}.]
1. 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.
2. (Law) Existing only in contemplation of law; not capable
of actual visible seizin or possession; not being an
object of sense intangible; -- opposed to {corporeal}.
{Incorporeal hereditament}. See under {Hereditament}.
Syn: Immaterial; unsubstantial; bodiless; spiritual.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
incorporeal
adj : without material form or substance; "an incorporeal spirit"
[syn: {immaterial}] [ant: {corporeal}]
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