Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Divested of the body; disembodied.
  • Deprived of corporate privileges.
  • To deprive of corporate privileges.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Deprived of the privileges or form of a body corporate.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having no material body
  • adjective Not being a member of a corporate body

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective not having a material body

Etymologies

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dis- +‎ corporate

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Examples

  • Downloading pirated e-books is okay for so many, because it's not only anonymous, it's convenient, it's discorporate, and it's a spit in the eye of the "gatekeepers."

    Piracy, Publishing, & the Plebeian (That's Me!) 2010

  • Contact with the Node causes the demons to discorporate on a cellular level.

    Hellgate London Covenant Mel Odom 2008

  • Kittens can levitate, ricochet, teleport and discorporate and take up most of a double bed.

    When PZ Turns Fifty . . . - The Panda's Thumb 2007

  • He always sensed a slight light-headedness at the peak of transportations, although he assumed it owed more to his imagination than to his physical discorporate state.

    No Limits Peter David 2003

  • I surveyed the lot of them, adopting a gaze and attitude so imperious that one would have thought I could have caused them to discorporate with a single harsh word.

    Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001

  • I surveyed the lot of them, adopting a gaze and attitude so imperious that one would have thought I could have caused them to discorporate with a single harsh word.

    Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001

  • I surveyed the lot of them, adopting a gaze and attitude so imperious that one would have thought I could have caused them to discorporate with a single harsh word.

    Sir Apropos of Nothing PETER DAVID 2001

  • These things happen when one is discorporate; the memories are there, but they become vague with time.

    In Celebration Of Lammas Night Lackey, Mercedes 1996

  • The supposedly discorporate writer assured her former friends that all was well.

    Constance Cumby "Cleansed" in "Harmonic Convergence": Speaks through "Trance Channel" (Parody) 1987

  • As a trance medium he is unparalleled, able to ‘Spout’ at will the messages beamed into his head from vast numbers of discorporate spirits, demons, dear departed, crazed saints, mystics and conquerors of ancient history including Cerinthus the Mad Gnostic, actual author of the Book of Revelation!

    The Book of the SubGenius The SubGenius Foundation 1983

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