Incorporeal Sentence Examples

All kinds of interests and property, whether corporeal, such as lands or buildings, or incorporeal, such as rights of common or of way, may be let.

The common law doctrine of a six months' notice being required to terminate a tenancy from year to year of a corporeal hereditament, does not apply to an incorporeal hereditament such as a right to shoot.

But hallucinatory figures, both in dreams and waking life, are not necessarily those of the living; from the reappearance of dead friends or enemies primitive man was inevitably led to the belief that there existed an incorporeal part of man which survived the dissolution of the body.

If incorporeal, he can neither act nor feel.

He further supposed that the monads are " incorporeal automata," not interacting like bodies, but each perceiving what was passing in the other, and acting in consequence by appetite, or self-acting.

It follows further that being is incorporeal, inasmuch as all body has size and parts.

It was through these powers that the incorporeal world of thought was framed, which served as the archetype of this world of appearance.

It is incorporeal, and may exist apart from body.

The controversy between nominalists and realists arose from a passage in Boethius' translation of Porphyry's Introduction to the Categories of Aristotle, which propounded the problem of genera and species, (1) as to whether they subsist in themselves or only in the mind; (2) whether, if subsistent, they are corporeal or incorporeal; and (3) whether separated from sensible things or placed in them.

They are regarded as incorporeal hereditaments, and are either appendant or in gross.

Nor can he be conceived of as corporeal or incorporeal.

Yet even he did not conceive this Reason as incorporeal; it was in reality only the most highly rarefied form of matter in existence.

But this Nous, or Mind, is not incorporeal; it is the thinnest of all things; its action on the particle is conceived materially.

After several episodes as an incorporeal being, Spike earns back his vampire form and begins a heroic crusade to rival Angel's earlier years.

This conception has been extended by analogy to phenomena different in kind, such as the activities of masses of water or of air, or of machinery, or by another analogy, to the duration of a composite structure, and by imagination to real or supposed phenomena such as the manifestations of incorporeal entities.