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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (2)

1. make concrete and real;

2. represent in bodily form;
- Example: "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"
- Example: "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist"
[syn: incarnate, body forth, embody, substantiate]


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. possessing or existing in bodily form;
- Example: "what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare
- Example: "an incarnate spirit"
- Example: "`corporate' is an archaic term";
[syn: bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied, incarnate]

2. invested with a bodily form especially of a human body;
- Example: "a monarch...regarded as a god incarnate"


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Incarnate \In*car"nate\, a. [Pref. in- not + carnate.] Not in the flesh; spiritual. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] I fear nothing . . . that devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do. --Richardson. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Incarnate \In*car"nate\, a. [L. incarnatus, p. p. of incarnare to incarnate, pref. in- in + caro, carnis, flesh. See Carnal.] [1913 Webster] 1. Invested with flesh; embodied in a human nature and form; united with, or having, a human body. [1913 Webster] Here shalt thou sit incarnate. --Milton. [1913 Webster] He represents the emperor and his wife as two devils incarnate, sent into the world for the destruction of mankind. --Jortin. [1913 Webster] 2. Flesh-colored; rosy; red. [Obs.] --Holland. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Incarnate \In*car"nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Incarnated; p. pr. & vb. n. Incarnating.] To clothe with flesh; to embody in flesh; to invest, as spirits, ideals, etc., with a human from or nature. [1913 Webster] This essence to incarnate and imbrute, That to the height of deity aspired. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Incarnate \In*car"nate\, v. i. To form flesh; to granulate, as a wound. [R.] [1913 Webster] My uncle Toby's wound was nearly well -- 't was just beginning to incarnate. --Sterne. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

incarnate adj 1: possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term" [syn: bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied, incarnate] 2: invested with a bodily form especially of a human body; "a monarch...regarded as a god incarnate" v 1: make concrete and real [ant: disincarnate] 2: represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist" [syn: incarnate, body forth, embody, substantiate]