Discorporate
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Deprived of the privileges or form of a body corporate. [Obs.]Jas. II.
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I believe Robert Heinlein used that word before Frank Zappa even thought of it.
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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 ones body. There are many reasons to discorporate, and it requires the wisdom of Martian Old Ones to truly [grok] why.
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v. to leave ones body (more specifically, ones spirit leaving the limits of ones 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 Were Only In It for the Money, and perhaps partly related to the real word [discorporation].
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