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disincarnate en · ADJ

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Etymology

Etymology tree Latin dis- Old French des-bor. Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- English incarnate English disincarnate From dis- + incarnate.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable, qualifier:Of a being) lacking a physical form.
   • 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. 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 235:

Synonyms

incorporeal · bodiless

Translations (3)

pt desencarnado (without a body) · el ασώματος (without a body) · el εξαϋλωμένος (without a body)

disincarnate en · VERB

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Etymology

Etymology tree Latin dis- Old French des-bor. Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- English incarnate English disincarnate From dis- + incarnate.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To divest of body; to make immaterial.
2. (intransitive) To die, in context of subsequently existing outside the body (for example, as a soul or spirit).

Forms

Translations (2)

pt desencarnar (to become a bodiless soul or spirit) · el εξαϋλώνω (to divest of body)