How To Use Incorporeal In A Sentence
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Specters sometimes drifted throughout the area, watching him with disconcertingly blank faces of incorporeal ectoplasm and dematerializing seconds later.
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In this way More sought to demonstrate that the idea of incorporeal substance, or spirit, was as intelligible as that of corporeal substance, i.e. body.
The Cambridge Platonists
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They are spiritual beings, incorporeal intelligences, and they may ‘have their origins in personalities’.
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Nor does it follow from hence that spirits are nothing: for they have dimensions and are therefore really bodies; though that name in common speech be given to such bodies only as are visible or palpable; that is, that have some degree of opacity: but for spirits, they call them incorporeal, which is a name of more honour, and may therefore with more piety be attributed to God
Leviathan
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The heaven in this poem is so far from being the incorporeal - the spiritual heaven of orthodox Christianity that you have an image of an actual orgy, the festal orgy raging under the thyrsus .
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Furthermore, More attempted to answer materialists like Thomas Hobbes whom he perceived as an atheist on account of his dismissal of the idea of incorporeal substance as non-sensical.
The Cambridge Platonists
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It's more important for you to think your way out of a legal dilemma than to remember that incorporeal hereditament is an inchoate or intangible right.
Perry Binder: 8 Things Your Prof Cares (or Doesn't Care) About in Class
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We say, then, that the divine Person of God the Word exists before all things timelessly and eternally, simple and uncompounded, uncreated, incorporeal, invisible, intangible, and uncircumscribed.
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Hester Wells lay in her bed upstairs, incorporeal beneath strata of covers, not knowing who she was.
MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
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Should we marvel then at the Cynics and the hippies, the Rousseaus and the Gauguins, sensitive souls that pilgrimaged towards incorporeal spirit, but found the altar crowded with genuflections before idolatrous matter?
In Quest of Happiness
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Plato demonstrated the incorporeal nature of the soul.
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Given, though, that many of these beings are incorporeal in nature and will not likely be disposing of the food themselves, this leaves the offerer with a galling dilemma: what is the proper way to clean up after the gods?
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Being defined as incorporeal substances, as purely spiritual beings, angels are not thus decomposable.
The Angels and Us
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In the work's outer sections, Nielsen uses dark, misty scoring and uncertain tonality to indicate the castle's incorporeal presence.
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Newton assumed that space was the empty container of things, that it was incorporeal, absolutely penetrable, never influenced anything and was never affected by any influence.
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They seemed to have the power to touch the incorporeal and see the invisible.
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An advowson, regarded by the law as property, is termed an incorporeal hereditament, "a right issuing out of a thing corporate.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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Of bodilessness or incorporiety no one, even among those who say their God is incorporeal, pretend to have an idea.
An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles
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And then something, instinct maybe, or whatever you like to label the incorporeal look-out in our psychological crow's nest, whispered to her that it might be wise if she awoke to her surroundings.
Leonie of the Jungle
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Other assets, what we used to call incorporeal hereditaments back in law school -- fair workin 'knowledge of the cattle an' horse business.
Prairie Flowers
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‘Land’ includes a rent or other incorporeal hereditament.
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If, then, we abstract all that belongs to bodies and things called incorporeal, we cast ourselves into the greatness of Christ, and thence advancing into immensity by holiness, we may reach somehow to the conception of the Almighty, knowing not what He is, but knowing what He is not.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History
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[59] _Stromata_, V, 12: "If, then, abstracting all that belongs to bodies and things called incorporeal, we cast ourselves into the greatness of Christ, and then advance into immensity by holiness, we may reach somehow to the conception of the Almighty, _knowing not what He is, but what He is not_.
The Basis of Early Christian Theism
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Plato demonstrated the incorporeal nature of the soul.
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Having defined hereditaments as inheritable interests, the common law went on to distinguish between corporeal and incorporeal hereditaments.
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Excluding others from access to incorporeal intellectual works was impossible and therefore the legal system, including copyright law, seemed anachronistic.
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The thing indicated by the word, and the word's relationship to it must, in effect, disappear in order for language to be transacted at the incorporeal, or the transcendental level of meaning and idea.
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Once again, he was incorporeal, a mere awareness floating in space.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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But in the common variety, they're ordinary people who believe it's their calling to help people worship a particular incorporeal deity instead of rocks.
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It is not an incorporeal right, such as, for example, an easement, which appertains to his land and adversely affects the registered Red Land.
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It is not an incorporeal right, such as, for example, an easement, which appertains to Mr McArdle's land and adversely affects the registered Red Land.
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In this way More sought to demonstrate that the idea of incorporeal substance, or spirit, was as intelligible as that of corporeal substance, i.e. body.
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Hester Wells lay in her bed upstairs, incorporeal beneath strata of covers, not knowing who she was.
MAN'S LOVING FAMILY
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Either, therefore, he who oppugns incorporeal quality seems also to oppugn unqualified matter; or separating the one from the other, he mutually parts them both.
Essays and Miscellanies
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If God is incorporeal, Newton determined that God must be everywhere, pervading the infinite.
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Metaphysics VII 3: In abstracting all qualities and other determinations from body Aristotle arrived at a conception of characterless, undetermined matter, a “prime matter” that the Neoplatonists later defined as formless and incorporeal (because it was no actual body, but only the necessary underlying condition for bodies).
John Philoponus
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The Stoics drew a fundamental distinction between two realms of being, a material realm of bodies and states of affairs and an incorporeal realm of events.
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In all which there is no colour at all for the burning of incorporeal, that is to say, impatible souls.
Leviathan
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The one is incorporeal and can only be influenced indirectly by the might of High King Conrig.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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Why then do we long to embrace incorporeality and flee our embodied natures?
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They could be patrimonial things or extra-patrimonial things; common things or sacred things; principal things or accessorial things; corporeal things or incorporeal things.
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In modern civil law, incorporeal things are moveables or immoveables, depending upon the nature of the property to which the rights or obligations attach.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
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_Incorporeal_ hereditaments are inheritable rights which grow out of corporeal inheritances, or which consist in their enjoyment; as the right of pasturing a common; a right of passage over the land of another; a right to the use of waters, sometimes called _aquatic rights_, &c.
The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens.
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Since the causes are immaterial, intellectual and eternal, so their created effects are essentially incorporeal, immaterial, intellectual, and eternal.
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Why then do we long to embrace incorporeality and flee our embodied natures?
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In English law the term prescription is applied to rights only which are defined to be incorporeal hereditaments, such as a right of way or a common or an advowson.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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Property includes the rights in and to any movable property, immovable property, corporeal and incorporeal property.
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He pointed out that legal recognition of trade marks as a species of incorporeal property was first accorded by the Court of Chancery in the first half of the 19th century.
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It is like that of the principle of evil himself, incorporeal, pure, unmixed, dephlegmated, defecated evil.
Paras. 60-83
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My plans for Hamish had been vaguely incorporeal: I had imagined him following me around, unbodied, free of want, but as soon as we arrived Lisa had placed him implacably under her own jurisdiction, like an empire appropriating a small, suitable colony. — from In the Fold, by Rachel Cusk (Little, Brown)
A Close Read
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an incorporeal spirit
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Property includes the rights in and to any movable property, immovable property, corporeal and incorporeal property.