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English
Etymology
dis- + incarnate
Adjective
disincarnate (not comparable)
- (Of a being) lacking a physical form.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 235:The Goddess again comes to his rescue and pieces him together, but she cannot find his phallus, for disincarnate specters on the astral do not possess the physical organs of generation.
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Verb
disincarnate (third-person singular simple present disincarnates, present participle disincarnating, simple past and past participle disincarnated)
- (transitive) To divest of body; to make immaterial.
- (religion, intransitive) To die, in context of subsequently existing outside the body (for example, as a soul or spirit).
Translations
to become a bodiless soul or spirit
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