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The meaning of DISINCARNATE is free of or freed from the demands of the body : disembodied.
3 days ago · disincarnate: 1 v make immaterial; remove the real essence of Antonyms: incarnate make concrete and real Type of: immaterialise , immaterialize , unsubstantialise , unsubstantialize render immaterial or incorporeal
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disincarnate (not comparable) 1. (Of a being) lacking a physical form. 1.1. 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 235: 1.1.1. The Goddess again comes to his rescue and pieces him together, but she cannot find his phallus, for disinca...
disincarnate (third-person singular simple present disincarnates, present participle disincarnating, simple past and past participle disincarnated) 1. (transitive) To divest of body; to make immaterial. 2. (religion, intransitive) To die, in context of subsequently existing outside the body (for example, as a soul or spirit).
“disincarnate”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present."disincarnate" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.dis·in·car·nate. (dĭs′ĭn-kär′nĭt) adj. Divested of bodily nature or form; disembodied: disincarnate spirits. tr.v. (-nāt′) dis·in·car·nat·ed, dis·in·car·nat·ing, dis·in·car·nates. To divest of bodily nature or form. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
Divested of bodily nature or form; disembodied. Disincarnate spirits. (Of a being) Without a body. To divest of bodily nature or form. To divest of body; to make immaterial. (religion, intransitive) To die, in context of subsequently existing outside the body (for example, as a soul or spirit).
What does the verb disincarnate mean? There is one meaning in OED's entry for the verb disincarnate . See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.
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