Discorporate

Word DISCORPORATE
Character 12
Hyphenation dis cor po rate
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The term is from the Robert Heinlein classic *Stranger in a Strange Land,* copyright 1961. To discorporate means to die corporeally (physically); withdraw; leave one's body. There are many reasons to discorporate, and it requires the wisdom of Martian Old Ones to truly grok why. Urban Dictionary

I believe Robert Heinlein used that word before Frank Zappa even thought of it. Urban Dictionary

V. to leave one's body (more specifically, one's spirit leaving the limits of one's body, but not through death, rather through some type of spiritual realization). A verb that appears to have been made up by Frank Zappa, as notably discussed on his song "Absolutely Free" from the 1968 album "We're Only In It for the Money", and perhaps partly related to the real word "discorporation". Urban Dictionary

A body taken apart and reduced to atoms or even smaller bits Urban Dictionary

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The word "discorporate" in example sentences

Downloading pirated e-books is okay for so many, because it's not only anonymous, it's convenient, it's discorporate, and it's a spit in the eye of the "gatekeepers." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Contact with the Node causes the demons to discorporate on a cellular level. ❋ Mel Odom (2008)

Kittens can levitate, ricochet, teleport and discorporate and take up most of a double bed. ❋ Unknown (2007)

He always sensed a slight light-headedness at the peak of transportations, although he assumed it owed more to his imagination than to his physical discorporate state. ❋ Peter David (2003)

I surveyed the lot of them, adopting a gaze and attitude so imperious that one would have thought I could have caused them to discorporate with a single harsh word. ❋ PETER DAVID (2001)

These things happen when one is discorporate; the memories are there, but they become vague with time. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1996)

The supposedly discorporate writer assured her former friends that all was well. ❋ Unknown (1987)

As a trance medium he is unparalleled, able to ‘Spout’ at will the messages beamed into his head from vast numbers of discorporate spirits, demons, dear departed, crazed saints, mystics and conquerors of ancient history including Cerinthus the Mad Gnostic, actual author of the Book of Revelation! ❋ The SubGenius Foundation (1983)

It must then make a second Will save or discorporate immediately. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Flournoy understood such spirit voices to be beneficent, and though Burroughs 'discarnate voices are far from that, it as if their cryptic utterances promise the uncovering of the repressed, the writer cast as the medium at a séance, the channeler of discorporate voices and decoder of mysterious messages emerging from the ether. ❋ Wal (2010)

I could tell you, but then I'd have to discorporate you. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One of Sherwood's fascinations was "spirit photography" - images of ghosts and other discorporate beings. ❋ Unknown (2009)

but the geneticist is old school, and got past that. now i am trying to show how genetic systems of high order life incorporate and discorporate qualities which define the beings and their abilities. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"skeleton grin" are left to preside over the discorporate world ... ❋ Wal (2010)

"His joy was muted by awareness that his brother did not share it -- he seemed more distressed than was possible save in one about to discorporate because of shameful lack or failure." Robert [Heinlein] writing the thoughts of character Valentine [Michael Smith] in *[Stranger in a Strange Land].* ❋ Ms. V. (2018)

[Valentine] [Michael Smith] often [felt] as if he would discorporate. ❋ Mrs. Grixon (2016)

"Unbind your mind, there is no time, boin-n-n-n-n-n-g, to lick your [stamps], and [paste] them in, discorporate, and we’ll begin" - [Frank Zappa] ❋ Hoops Gza (2011)

discorporation happens when [Scotty] [beams] you up when we are [teleported] from one location to another we go through discorporation we are reduced to an energy "signature" and reconstructed at the new location ❋ Hesiod (2009)

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