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Webster 1913 Edition


Disembodied

Disˊem-bod′ied

,
Adj.
Divested of a body; ceased to be corporal; incorporeal.
The
disembodied
spirits of the dead.
Bryant.

Webster 1828 Edition


Disembodied

DISEMBODIED

,
Adj.
[dis and embodied.]
1.
Divested of the body; as disembodied spirits or souls.
2.
Separated; discharged from keeping in a body.

Definition 2024


disembodied

disembodied

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Verb

disembodied

  1. simple past tense and past participle of disembody

Adjective

disembodied (comparative more disembodied, superlative most disembodied)

  1. Having no material body, immaterial; incorporeal or insubstantial.
    • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter 8:
      You'd have thought that this Wickham would have learned at her mother's knee that the last thing a fellow in a highly nervous condition wants, when he's searching someone's room, is a disembodied voice in his immediate ear asking him how he's getting on. The upshot, I need scarcely say, was that I came down like a sack of coals.

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