Word Meanings - UNBODY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To free from the body; to disembody. Her soul unbodied of the burdenous corse. Spenser.

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• CORSELET
  The thorax of an insect. (more info) 1. Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together; -- also, used for the entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece.
• BURDENOUS
  Burdensome. "Burdenous taxations." Shak.
• CORSEPRESENT
  An offering made to the church at the interment of a dead body. Blackstone.
• CORSE
  1. A living body or its bulk. For he was strong, and of so mighty corse As ever wielded spear in warlike hand. Spenser. 2. A corpse; the dead body of a human being. Set down the corse; or, by Saint Paul, I'll make a corse of him that disobeys.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• DISEMBODY
  To disarm and disband, as a body of soldiers,-Wilhelm. (more info) 1. To divest of the or corporeal existence. Devils embodied and disembodied. Sir W. Scott.
• CORSET
  1. In the Middle Ages, a gown or basque of which the body was close fitting, worn by both men and women. 2. An article of dress inclosing the chest and waist worn (chiefly by women) to support the body or to modify its shape; stays.
• SCORSE
  Barter; exchange; trade. And recompensed them with a better scorse. Spenser.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.