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Definition of Disincarnate
1. Verb. Make immaterial; remove the real essence of.
Antonyms: Incarnate
Definition of Disincarnate
1. Adjective. (Of a being) without a body ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To divest of body; to make immaterial. ¹
3. Verb. (religion intransitive) To die, in context of subsequently existing outside the body (for example, as a soul or spirit). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disincarnate
Literary usage of Disincarnate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. From India to the Planet Mars: A Study of a Case of Somnambulism with by Théodore Flournoy (1900)
"Ought we to consider real the homage and the posthumous remorse which these two
disincarnate spirits bring after the lapse of a century to their sovereign, ..."
2. From India to the Planet Mars: A Study of a Case of Somnambulism with by Théodore Flournoy (1901)
"Ought we to consider real the homage and the posthumous remorse which these two
disincarnate spirits bring after the lapse of a century to their sovereign, ..."
3. The Revelation of John by Edward Clarence Farnsworth (1919)
"Whenever such as Jezebel surrenders personal will to that of some incarnate or
disincarnate entity, it is well-nigh impossible to turn back or, ..."
4. Theology of the Westminster Symbols: A Commentary Historical, Doctrinal by Edward Dafydd Morris (1900)
"These remarkable manifestations in nature seem to culminate in the disincarnate
voice three times heard in the air, (at the baptism, at the transfiguration, ..."
5. Old Diary Leaves: The True Story of the Theosophical Society by Henry Steel Olcott (1895)
"Then arises the question whether the Platonist was really a spirit disincarnate,
... as if we were dealing with a living than with a disincarnate person. ..."
6. Mind (1898)
"For aught I can tell, too, his disincarnate spirit may have more power over her
than when incarnated; he may have gained a point on that mystery we call ..."
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