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Incorporeal
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Lacking a physical or material nature but relating to or affecting a body.

Under Common Law, incorporeal property were rights that affected a tangible item, such as a chose in action (a right to enforce a debt).

Incorporeal is the opposite of corporeal, a description of the existence of a tangible item.

incorporeal adj. referring to a thing which is not physical, such as a right. This is distinguished from tangible.

INCORPOREAL. Not consisting of matter.
     2. Things incorporeal. are those which are not the object of sense, which cannot be seen or felt, but which we can easily, conceive in the understanding, as rights, actions, successions, easements, and the like. Dig. lib. 6, t. 1; Id. lib. 41, t. 1, l. 43, Sec. 1; Poth. Traite des Choses, Sec. 2.
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This metaphorical incorporeality becomes literal when Creusa's shade appears to Aeneas.
Placement, gender, pedagogy: Virgil's fourth Georgic in print * by Wallace, Andrew / Renaissance Quarterly
Ontologically speaking, the Pythagoreans had a happier time of it with Ficino, and are seen as a watershed in the history of ontology, as the first philosophers to propound the incorporeality of essence.
Pythagoras in The Renaissance: The Case of Marsilio Ficino by Celenza, Christopher S. / Renaissance Quarterly
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