Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Disembodied. Not embodied; not collected into a body; as, unembodied militia.

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

  • adjective Free from a corporeal body; disembodied.
  • adjective Not embodied; not collected into a body; not yet organized.

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

  • adjective Incorporeal; not possessed of a body.
  • adjective :
  • adjective especially of armed multitudes Not united in a regimented structure; lacking structure and order.
  • adjective Existing or operating without involvement by the body; solely mental or intellectual; “ungrounded”, “heady”.

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

  • adjective not having a material body

Etymologies

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un- +‎ embodied

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Examples

  • The beauty of colour is also the outcome of a unification: it derives from shape, from the conquest of the darkness inherent in Matter by the pouring-in of light, the unembodied, which is a Rational-Principle and an

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

  • This makes it all the more evident that the unembodied is the free; to this our self-disposal is to be referred; herein lies our will which remains free and self-disposing in spite of any orders which it may necessarily utter to meet the external.

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

  • I hope so, given that the unidentified, unembodied, possibly deceased designer has an inordinate fondness for bacteria, “irreducibly complex” flagella and all.

    No metazoan is an island - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • Then they apply that inference to potential candidates – human beings, chimps, neurological connections, ETI, panspermia directors, human-like minds, unembodied intelligent beings, etc.

    Bunny and a Book 2008

  • I hope so, given that the unidentified, unembodied, possibly deceased designer has an inordinate fondness for bacteria, “irreducibly complex” flagella and all. fnxtr replied to comment from Roger

    No metazoan is an island - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • Adler claims that purity must make sense in human terms, where women regularly bleed, not in terms of an unembodied God.

    Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography. leBeit Yoreh 2009

  • (Alasta bi Rabbi — kum); fand they produce a grand vision of unembodied spirits appearing in countless millions before their Creator.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • "Like human designers, the unembodied designers of MDT are constrained by the media with which they must work."

    Critique of MDT 2005

  • Well then, good wishes to RBH for his continuing research on "˜empirically-based inferences about the intentions of" ¦ unembodied designers! '

    Critique of MDT 2005

  • "It may even be possible to make empirically-based inferences about the intentions of the several designers: the telos of individual unembodied designers may be empirically accessible to us."

    Critique of MDT 2005

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