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Definition of incorporeal in English: incorporealadjective ˌɪnkɔːˈpɔːrɪəlˌɪnkɔrˈpɔriəl 1Not composed of matter; having no material existence. 非物质的;无实体的,无形的 a supreme but incorporeal being called God 千百万人信仰一种至高无上而又无形无体的存在,他们称之为上帝。 Example sentencesExamples - They are spiritual beings, incorporeal intelligences, and they may ‘have their origins in personalities’.
- The thing indicated by the word, and the word's relationship to it must, in effect, disappear in order for language to be transacted at the incorporeal, or the transcendental level of meaning and idea.
- Since the causes are immaterial, intellectual and eternal, so their created effects are essentially incorporeal, immaterial, intellectual, and eternal.
- The Stoics drew a fundamental distinction between two realms of being, a material realm of bodies and states of affairs and an incorporeal realm of events.
- But in the common variety, they're ordinary people who believe it's their calling to help people worship a particular incorporeal deity instead of rocks.
Synonyms intangible, impalpable, non-material, non-physical bodiless, unembodied, disembodied ethereal, unsubstantial, insubstantial, airy, aerial spiritual, ghostly, spectral, phantom, wraithlike, transcendental, unearthly, supernatural unreal, imaginary, illusory, chimerical, hallucinatory rare immaterial, discarnate, disincarnate, unbodied, phantasmal, phantasmic - 1.1Law Having no physical existence.
〔律〕无形体的 Example sentencesExamples - They could be patrimonial things or extra-patrimonial things; common things or sacred things; principal things or accessorial things; corporeal things or incorporeal things.
- Excluding others from access to incorporeal intellectual works was impossible and therefore the legal system, including copyright law, seemed anachronistic.
- It is not an incorporeal right, such as, for example, an easement, which appertains to Mr McArdle's land and adversely affects the registered Red Land.
- Property includes the rights in and to any movable property, immovable property, corporeal and incorporeal property.
- He pointed out that legal recognition of trade marks as a species of incorporeal property was first accorded by the Court of Chancery in the first half of the 19th century.
Derivativesnounˌɪnkɔːpɔːrɪˈalɪtiˌɪnˌkɔrˌpɔriˈælədi There is an element of incorporeality - a deeply felt relationality that when attended to serves to bind us to place. Example sentencesExamples - Rich, thick areas of paint draw the viewer into a world of illumination and incorporeality where the heart communicates to all of the senses in a manner that defies definition.
- One could object that the incorporeality of God can have no corporeal image.
- The intermingling of mediums scrambled distinctions between flatness and depth, stasis and motion, tactility and incorporeality.
- My basic form expands and this very expansion from an uncertain core makes for the feel of incorporeality in my paintings.
adverb Fourth, He would incarnate somewhere else in one of the three aforesaid ways, but incorporeally and help the earth in a general way. Example sentencesExamples - For such is the nature of intellectual existences, that they can mingle with one another and with bodies, incorporeally and invisibly.
- This building originally designed to be ethereal, almost incorporeally transparent, has received an exterior appearance considerably more subject to gravitation.
- In one usage, it means anything believed without absolute certainty, i.e. ‘you have faith that you will not pass incorporeally through your chair.’
- For if it is nurtured, it is not nurtured corporeally, like the body, but incorporeally; for it is nurtured by reason.
noun ˌɪnkɔːpəˈriːɪtiˌɪnkɔːpəˈreɪɪti Again this was in a tradition; the Romans since Gaius were well used to the reification of legal concepts, of incorporeities, of mental objects. Example sentencesExamples - In its incorporeity, it is a ready scapegoat word, like State, Establishment, the Right, the Left.
- Thought of the divine incorporeity was suggested by absence of any altar-image.
- A church is the ideal place for a work concerning the incorporeity of vocation.
- The panel is found at the opening part of the second part of the book, which deals with establishing the proofs of God's existence, incorporeity and oneness.
OriginLate Middle English: from Latin incorporeus, from in- 'not' + corporeus (from corpus, corpor- 'body') + -al. Definition of incorporeal in US English: incorporealadjectiveˌɪnkɔrˈpɔriəlˌinkôrˈpôrēəl 1Not composed of matter; having no material existence. 非物质的;无实体的,无形的 ghostly presences and incorporeal beings Example sentencesExamples - The Stoics drew a fundamental distinction between two realms of being, a material realm of bodies and states of affairs and an incorporeal realm of events.
- They are spiritual beings, incorporeal intelligences, and they may ‘have their origins in personalities’.
- The thing indicated by the word, and the word's relationship to it must, in effect, disappear in order for language to be transacted at the incorporeal, or the transcendental level of meaning and idea.
- But in the common variety, they're ordinary people who believe it's their calling to help people worship a particular incorporeal deity instead of rocks.
- Since the causes are immaterial, intellectual and eternal, so their created effects are essentially incorporeal, immaterial, intellectual, and eternal.
Synonyms intangible, impalpable, non-material, non-physical - 1.1Law Having no physical existence.
〔律〕无形体的 Example sentencesExamples - They could be patrimonial things or extra-patrimonial things; common things or sacred things; principal things or accessorial things; corporeal things or incorporeal things.
- He pointed out that legal recognition of trade marks as a species of incorporeal property was first accorded by the Court of Chancery in the first half of the 19th century.
- It is not an incorporeal right, such as, for example, an easement, which appertains to Mr McArdle's land and adversely affects the registered Red Land.
- Excluding others from access to incorporeal intellectual works was impossible and therefore the legal system, including copyright law, seemed anachronistic.
- Property includes the rights in and to any movable property, immovable property, corporeal and incorporeal property.
OriginLate Middle English: from Latin incorporeus, from in- ‘not’ + corporeus (from corpus, corpor- ‘body’) + -al. |