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Definition of Discorporate
1. Adjective. Not having a material body. "Bodiless ghosts"
Definition of Discorporate
1. a. Deprived of the privileges or form of a body corporate.
Definition of Discorporate
1. Adjective. Having no material body ¹
2. Adjective. Not being a member of a corporate body ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Discorporate
Literary usage of Discorporate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... lead my spouse, mine own Harmonia, Ares' child, discorporate And haunting
forms, dragon and dragon-mate, Against the tombs and altar-stones of Greece, ..."
2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1816)
"... or since, in our court of King's-bench (but no judgments entered upon record)
are not discorporate or dissolved ; And that it is in our power to leave ..."
3. Term Reports in the Court of King's Bench by Charles Durnford, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Edward Hyde East (1817)
"... were not discorporate or dissolved; and that it was in his (King James's)
power to leave such corporations in the same state and condition they were in, ..."
4. Household Economics: A Course of Lectures in the School of Economics of the by Helen Campbell (1896)
"As we value our corporate existence, we must preserve its constituents, else we
discorporate speedily. It is a " low " function, this of nutrition, ..."
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