unbody

English

Etymology

un- +‎ body

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈbɒdi/

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.

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2. (transitive) To free from the body; to disembody.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Aegloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, →OCLC:

     her soul unbodied of the burdenous cors

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• nobudy, nu body, ybound