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discarnate

[ dis-kahr-nit, -neyt ]

/ dɪsˈkɑr nɪt, -neɪt /

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adjective

without a physical body; incorporeal.

Origin of discarnate

1655–65; dis¹ + -carnate, as in incarnate

OTHER WORDS FROM discarnate

dis·car·na·tion, noun

Words nearby discarnate

disc., discal, discalced, discant, discard, discarnate, discase, discectomy, discern, discernible, discerning

Example sentences from the Web for discarnate

If discarnate spirits don't trouble about the personal affairs of those on earth, the "Cui Bono" argument is hurled at them.

Seen and Unseen |E. Katharine Bates
After that superb test, why didn't he frankly say the discarnate had been proved?

The Shadow World |Hamlin Garland
This intelligence or initiative can surely be as well supplied by the sub-consciousness as by a discarnate intelligence.

Bygone Beliefs |H. Stanley Redgrove
Sir Oliver Lodge is inclined to discover in the luminiferous ether an environment in which discarnate personality could function.

Modern Religious Cults and Movements |Gaius Glenn Atkins

How does it happen that some souls are in a body, while others are discarnate?

Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 2 |Plotinos (Plotinus)