a. Now rare. [UN-1 7.] Incorporeal.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., II. iii. (Tollem. MS.). A soule is an unbodili … substance.
1435. Misyn, Fire of Love, 76. Þe lufar … byrnand into vnbodily halsynge.
c. 1491. Chast. Goddes Chyld., 47. Whanne the insighte of the sowle … is cleerly fastnyd in unbodely substaunce.
1532. More, Confut. Tindale, Wks. 387/1. That ye bodely water can not worke vpon the vnbodyly soule.
1587. Golding, De Mornay, xiv. (1592), 203. Herevpon inseweth another controuersie, whether this substance bee a bodily or an vnbodily substance.
1610. Healey, St. Aug. Citie of God, XI. xxi. 424. His intention runnes not from thought to thought, all thinges hee knowes are in his vnbodily presence.
1686. Parr, Life of Ussher, App. 14. The real presence of a Body, and yet unbodily; I suppose those that speak thus, understand as little as I do.
1876. Emerson, Lett. & Soc. Aims, Immort., Wks. (Bohn), III. 288. Thinking the soul as unbodily among bodies,… the wise man casts off all grief.
Hence Unbodiliness.
1611. Florio, Incorporeita, vnbodilinesse.
