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Disembodied   /dɪsɪbˈɑdid/   Listen
verb
Disembody  v. t.  (past & past part. disembodied; pres. part. disembodying)  
1.
To divest of the body or corporeal existence. "Devils embodied and disembodied."
2.
(Mil.) To disarm and disband, as a body of soldiers.


adjective
Disembodied  adj.  Divested of a body; ceased to be corporal; incorporeal. "The disembodied spirits of the dead."





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"Disembodied" Quotes from Famous Books



... spectral ideas and disembodied aspirations, many brave minds have turned away at last from the vain and endless conflict to the one great historical fact of the land. They turned to autocracy for the peace of their patriotic conscience as a weary unbeliever, touched by grace, turns to the faith of his fathers ...
— Under Western Eyes • Joseph Conrad
... brief space, clad in ecstasy, Pure, disembodied, I fall to kiss thy feet, And sense thy glory throbbing round about; Whereafter, rising, I hold thee in a sweet And gentle converse that lifts me up to be, When thou art gone, strange to ...
— Helen Redeemed and Other Poems • Maurice Hewlett
... earth was a solid immovable plane of comparatively small extent. At the time of the Exodus, it seems clear that, even among a people so far advanced as the Egyptians, all that lay beyond the mountains which bounded their land on the west was believed to belong not to living men, but to disembodied spirits. It was the terrible country through which the souls of the departed made their arduous way to the Hall of Judgment [Footnote: "The Nations Around," pp. 49, 50.] Accordingly, we find that the Egyptians made no attempt ...
— The Story of Creation as told by Theology and by Science • T. S. Ackland
... sort of woman who treats men as if they were disembodied spirits, and that's the most dangerous sort I know. If I'm not mistaken Mr. Savage Keith Rickman's spirit ...
— The Divine Fire • May Sinclair
... and tangible body of flesh and blood, suited to our life here. The second stage begins at death, the name we give to the separation which then takes place between this material fabric of the body and the incorporeal part of us; and then the soul and spirit dwell disembodied for a time. There follows at the Resurrection the third period, when the soul and spirit are reunited with the body, but with the body now so spiritualized and refined as to suit the heavenly existence. The second of these two periods, ...
— The Life of the Waiting Soul - in the Intermediate State • R. E. Sanderson


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