disembodying

Learning that they were bent on "disembodying" me, and not liking the sound of the word, I had very quietly removed myself from my regiment to the Staff.

Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920. Various

A disembodying experience, the next morning my scribbled notes appeared to read Bjork against the machine.

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The disembodying of the militia at the close of the war (1763) had restored the Major (a new Cincinnatus) to a life of agriculture.

Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994

Tumults were spreading throughout the kingdom, from the disembodying of the militia, and the discharge of seamen and sailors without pay; the treaty with France and Spain was not ratified; no commercial alliance was adjusted with

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

It is worthy of remark that both lycanthropists and witches ascribed the power of disembodying themselves to the use of ointments.

The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II Various

Please understand that there was no talk of discharging me; no talk of demobilising me; no talk even of disembodying me.

Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920. Various

But mist in a moonlight forest is even more disembodying than mist on a moonlight sea.

The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

"And your disembodying yourself, darling, is only a question of time."

The Creators A Comedy May Sinclair 1904

So he must find a way of disembodying and of attachment to some force swift as lightning, of which there are plenty in the spaces when the world has ceased to be a world.

Among the Forces Henry White Warren 1871

So far as reason is competent to pronounce on this view considered as a sequel to the disembodying doom of man, it is an arbitrary piece of fancy.

The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863