Pharmacy, is the reduction of dry substances to the consistence of a paste, by the admixture of some fluid; thus pills, boles, &c., are made by incorporation.
Body-Corporate. See Corporation.
Incorporeal, spiritual; a thing, or substance, which has no body. Thus the soul of man is incorporeal, and may subsist independent of the body. See Metaphysics.
Incorruptible, that which cannot be corrupted. Thus spiritual substances, as angels, human souls, &c. and thus also, glass, gold, mercury, &c. may be called incorruptible.
Incorruptibles, Incorruptibles, the name of a sect which sprung out of the Eutychians.—Their distinguishing tenet was, that the body of Jesus Christ was incorruptible; by which they meant, that after and from the time wherein he was formed in the womb of his holy mother, he was not susceptible of any change or alteration; not even of any natural and innocent passions, as of hunger, thirst, &c. so that he ate.