ppl. a. Also unim-. [UN-1 8.]

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  1.  Not invested with a body; incorporeal.

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1662.  Glanvill, Lux Orient., xii. (1682), 104. To urge, that there are … purely unembodied Spirits in the Universe.

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1719.  De Foe, Crusoe, II. (Globe), 363. I am satisfied our Spirits embodied have a Converse with … the Spirits unembodied.

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a. 1766.  Mrs. F. Sheridan, Nourjahad (1767), 196. He felt as it were unimbodied, and an involuntary adjuration burst from his lips.

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1848.  R. I. Wilberforce, Incarnation, xii. 393. The natural intercourse of the mind with its unembodied Creator.

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1855.  Milman, Lat. Chr., XIV. iii. VI. 468. Matter … subsisted potentially only,… unembodied, immaterial.

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  2.  Not embodied, in various senses.

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1760.  Ann. Reg., Chron., 189. The charge of pay and cloathing for the unembodied militia.

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1841.  Miall, in Nonconf., I. 17. A mere theory,… an abstract unembodied principle.

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