Definition of "discarnate" []

• Having no material body or form: a discarnate spirit. (adjective)

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• "They could take charge of the situation and show that they had qualities of conscious intention—what we scientifically refer to as discarnate intention."
• "But the Statisticalists cannot accept the idea of discarnate consciousness, since they conceive of consciousness purely as a function of the physical brain."
• "There must be, moreover, what one may call a discarnate status -- an order, that is, of relationships and activities in which discarnate personality realizes and expresses itself."