Incorporeal

//ɪnkɔː(ɹ)ˈpɔːɹiəl//

"Incorporeal" in a Sentence (12 examples)

Just because people are corporeal born to this world doesn't mean that they understand everything about it, similarly just because somebody's died doesn't mean that they understand everything about the incorporeal world.

Maybe in another universe, sentient beings, as well as their very environment, are incorporeal.

The alien is incorporeal, like a ghost.

The biology on this globe is carbon-based. Some have speculated that there could be silicon-based forms of biology elsewhere in this universe. There yet could be plasma-based biology. There could be incorporeal biology. There could be other probabilities.

How came the Bodies of Animals to be contrived with so much Art, and for what ends were their several Parts? Was the Eye contrived without Skill in Opticks, and the Ear without Knowledge of Sounds?... Does it not appear from Phænomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent?

At the end of last month, May of 2014, Bratislav, of Croatian descent, had left the Lulu Island neighbourhood, he having bought a new house and abandoning his slender townhouse. One of our last meetings in the neighbourhood was at the Rideau School field. We discussed plenty. Russia and China had been "State Capitalist" regimes and not "Communist" as they claimed to be. There was an alien "spacecraft" hovering invisibly above the grassy field; oh no, it was some kind of "portal"; oh no, it was an "incorporeal being." Many East Asian logograms, or "Sinograms," had a categorizing radical along with a hinting phonetic radical; they were not all pictographic. Daoists, I said, liked to be like a simple driftwood. There were aliens aplenty, Bratislav repeated. That day on the field last month, the thousands of dandelions were abundant with cloudy tufts of their soon-to-fly seeds.

Thus incorporeal spirits to smaller forms / Reduced their shapes immense.

Sense and perception must necessarily proceed from some incorporeal substance within us.

The World is all viciſsitude and converſion. Nor is it onely true in Materials and Substances; but even in Spirits, in Incorporeals; […]

The divine nature of the celeſtial bodies cannot be ſeen through the teleſcope, and incorporeals are not to be viewed with a microſcopic eye: […]

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Where the interest in a piece of land of one of six heirs to the deceased father’s estate was levied upon and it was claimed as a homestead, the Court said: “It is an incorporeal, and an incorporeal cannot be the object of the homestead act.”

It is manifest that incorporeals are incapable of transfer by delivery. But urban praedial rights may be ceded in court, and rural ones may also be mancipated.

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