unbody

English

Etymology

un- +‎ body

Verb

unbody (third-person singular simple present unbodies, present participle unbodying, simple past and past participle unbodied)

  1. (intransitive, of the soul or spirit) To leave the body; to be disembodied.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
  2. (transitive) To free from the body; to disembody.
    • Edmund Spenser
      her soul unbodied of the burdenous corse

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for unbody in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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