What is "bodiless"

Usage examples of "bodiless".

The only alternative is that, if it does exist, it be something bodiless, either in the objects thus brought together or outside of them.

Existents and the principles of the Existents, whether they have entailed an infinite or a finite number, bodily or bodiless, or even supposed the Composite to be the Authentic Existent, may well be considered separately with the help of the criticisms made by the ancients upon them.

It was behind this monstrous trapezoidal gateway that the horror was building, as water builds behind a weakening dam a soft, shifting, bodiless evil, an unspeakable eruption into the land of the living from out of black abysses of space and time.

Blackness seemed to press like a bodiless entity against the long windows that ran the length of one wall.

Matter, too, is bodiless: it may, then, be supposed that as Matter pervades everything so the bodiless qualities associated with it--as long as they are few--have the power of penetration without disintegration.

And yet that it is precisely in virtue of bodiless powers that bodies possess their efficiency is clear from certain reflections: It will be admitted that quality and quantity are two different things, that body is always a thing of quantity but not always a thing of quality: matter is not qualified.

Matter: hence they are bodiless and active, since Matter is their substrate--a relation of passivity.

The various speculations on the subject of the Existents and the principles of the Existents, whether they have entailed an infinite or a finite number, bodily or bodiless, or even supposed the Composite to be the Authentic Existent, may well be considered separately with the help of the criticisms made by the ancients upon them.

He floated, bodiless in the featureless void, and when the urge to cry out could no longer be denied he lost himself in sickened terror at the realization that he had no mouth to shout with, no voice to raise.

Her thoughts drifted away into a wordless, luxurious reveling in the bodiless state, free from distractions, carefree and disconnected.

Time and again the lips of the bodiless head opened as if to frame words, but no sound could escape from that twitching mouth, as yet unconnected to the air supply.

The Sorcerer Quoron When the bodiless head looked at her, Niamh froze with ghastly horror.

The bodiless head in the white chamber-the mindless idiot-thing he called, contemptuously, by the name of Wa-Wa-was the only brain he had thus far managed to keep alive for any significant length of time, after removing it from its body.

As partibility goes with body, so impartibility with the bodiless: what partition is possible where there is no magnitude?

The terror of onanism is that bodiless demons are able to make bodies for themselves from the spilled seed.