Thesaurus: incorporeal

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1. a. Not corporeal; not having a material body or form; not consisting of matter; immaterial.
2. a. Existing only in contemplation of law; not capable of actual visible seizin or possession; not being an object of sense; intangible; -- opposed to corporeal.
3. adj. without material form or substance
4. 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.
5. Existing only in contemplation of law; not capable of actualvisible seizin or possession; not being an object of sense;intangible; -- opposed to corporeal. Incorporeal hereditament. Seeunder Hereditament.
6. j:100 a. without material form or substance