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If something is incorporeal, it has no physical form — no body you can touch, weigh, or point to as a lump of stuff. Ghosts in stories are incorporeal: you may “see” them, but your hand goes through. In law, some property is called incorporeal too: a right (to use a path, to collect a fee), not a house or a field. Though actually, outside law books and ghost stories this word is rare. Most people say “not physical” or “with no body.” It is a formal, slightly adjective. Do not hear it as incorporate: incorporeal is “no body”; incorporate is “put into a body or group.”
無形體的、非物質的（法律上也可指權利這類無形財產）
組成From Latin incorporeus + English -al. By the shape of the English word, in- (“not”) + corporeal (“having a body”).
同家族的字
- corporealthe opposite: having a physical body
- corpusLatin “body,” the piece inside corporeal and incorporeal
- incorporatesame corpus “body” piece, but the meaning is “put into a body,” not “without a body”
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
incorporealadj/ɪnkɔː(ɹ)ˈpɔːɹiəl/
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Having no material form or physical substance.
- Thus incorporeal spirits to smaller forms / Reduced their shapes immense.
- Sense and perception must necessarily proceed from some incorporeal substance within us.
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lawRelating to an asset that does not have a material form; such as a patent.
incorporealnoun/ɪnkɔː(ɹ)ˈpɔːɹiəl/
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Something that is incorporeal.
- The World is all viciſsitude and converſion. Nor is it onely true in Materials and Substances; but even in Spirits, in Incorporeals; […]
- The divine nature of the celeſtial bodies cannot be ſeen through the teleſcope, and incorporeals are not to be viewed with a microſcopic eye: […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。