astral body
Americannoun
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Astronomy. a star, planet, comet, or other heavenly body.
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Theosophy. a nonphysical body believed able to separate from an individual’s physical body at will and to survive the individual after death.
Etymology
Origin of astral body
First recorded in 1685–95
Example Sentences
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He believes that man has not only an astral body which leaves the corporal shell in sleep or death but an etheric body even more refined than the astral.
From Time Magazine Archive
Despite a soft landing on that astral body, the reappearance of the celebrated black monoliths of superintelligence, and references to voicegrams, audiomail and vocards, Clarke's future bears a marked resemblance to the present.
From Time Magazine Archive
The astral body theory . . . made it an eminently proper play.
From Time Magazine Archive
Apparently, the astral body of Drift, a play that lived a short life last season at the Cherry Lane Theatre, is up and doing.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is not much comfort to be able to keep your husband's material body in the house evenings, when his astral body keeps wandering off to the club, every few minutes.
From A Guide to Men Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl by Rowland, Helen
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