| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adverb | 1. In an incorporeal manner.[Websters]
2. In a spiritual, immaterial, moral, inessential or nonmaterial manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. In an ethereal manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. In an insubstantial, unsubstantial, nonphysical or bodiless manner. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Rarely used adverbial inflection of the adjective incorporeal.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective Form (incorporeal) | 1. Without material form or substance; "an incorporeal spirit".[Wordnet]. 2. Not corporeal; not having a material body or form; not consisting of matter; immaterial.[Websters]. 3. Existing only in contemplation of law; not capable of actual visible seizin or possession; not being an object of sense; intangible; -- opposed to corporeal.[Websters]. 4. Being immaterial, spiritual, insubstantial, inessential or nonmaterial.[Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being bodiless, disembodied or unbodied.[Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being intangible or impalpable.[Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Being unsubstantial or nonphysical.[Eve - graph theoretic] 8. Being ethereal, aerial or pneumatic.[Eve - graph theoretic] 9. Being metaphysical or abstract.[Eve - graph theoretic] 10. Seldom used base adjective of the adverb incorporeally.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "INCORPOREALLY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1828. (references) |
Specialty Definition: INCORPOREALLY
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adverb] Without body; immaterially. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
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Specialty Expressions: incorporeal
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Incorporeal hereditament | Law | INCORPOREAL HEREDITAMENT, title, estates. 1. A right issuing out of, or annexed unto a thing corporeal. 2. Their existence is merely in idea and abstracted contemplation, though their effects and profits may be frequently the objects of our bodily senses. Co Litt. 9 a; Poth. Traite des Choses, 2. According to Sir William Blackstone, there are ten kinds of incorporeal hereditamenta; namely, 1. Advowsons. 2. Tithes. 3. Commons. 4. Ways. 5. Offices. 6. Dignities. 7. Franchises. 8. Corodies. 9. Annuities. 10. Rents. 2 Bl. Com. 20. 3. But, in the United States, there, are no advowsons, tithes, dignities, nor corodies. The other's have no necessary connection with real estate, and are not hereditary, and, with the exception of annuities, in some cases, cannot be transferred, and do not descend. (references) | |
| Incorporeal property | Environment | That which cannot be seen or touched. Property, such as a right, which exists only in contemplation, as distinguished from corporeal property which has a material existence and which may be seen and touched. See CORPOREAL. (references) | |
| Incorporeal property | Finance | Intangible personal property lacking in physical substance, such as property rights, leases and mortgages. (references) | |
| Incorporeal property | Law | INCORPOREAL PROPERTY, civil law. That which consists in legal right merely; or, as the term is, in the common law, of choses in actions. Vide Corporeal property. (references) | |
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