disincarnate

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ incarnate

Adjective

disincarnate (not comparable)

(Of a being) lacking a physical form.
- 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 235:
  The Goddess again comes to his rescue and pieces him together, but she cannot find his phallus, for disincarnate specters on the astral do not possess the physical organs of generation.

Synonyms

Translations

without a body

Greek: εξαϋλωμένος (el) m (exaÿloménos), ασώματος (el) m (asómatos)
Portuguese: desencarnado (pt) m

Verb

disincarnate (third-person singular simple present disincarnates, present participle disincarnating, simple past and past participle disincarnated)

(transitive) 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).

Translations

to divest of body

Greek: εξαϋλώνω (el) (exaÿlóno)

to become a bodiless soul or spirit

Portuguese: desencarnar (pt)

References

“disincarnate”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
"disincarnate" in WordNet 3.1, Princeton University, 2011.

Anagrams

incardinates

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