incorporeal

adj

1. 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.”

2. Relating to an asset that does not have a material form; such as a patent.

noun

1. 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: […]”

   “Where the interest in a piece of land of one of six heirs to the deceased father’s estate was levied upon and it was claimed as a homestead, the Court said: “It is an incorporeal, and an incorporeal cannot be the object of the homestead act.””

   “It is manifest that incorporeals are incapable of transfer by delivery. But urban praedial rights may be ceded in court, and rural ones may also be mancipated.”