DISEMBODY

disembody

(verb) free from a body or physical form or reality

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

disembody (third-person singular simple present disembodies, present participle disembodying, simple past and past participle disembodied)

To cause someone's soul, spirit, consciousness, voice, etc, to become separated from the physical body.

To separate (a part of the body) from the body.

To discharge from military service or array.

Source: Wiktionary


Dis`em*bod"y, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disembodied; p. pr. & vb. n. Disembodying.]

1. To divest of the or corporeal existence. Devils embodied and disembodied. Sir W. Scott.

2. (Mil.)

Definition: To disarm and disband, as a body of soldiers,-Wilhelm.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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