embodied

Adjective
US[im-bod-eed]/ɪmˈbɑdid/3 syllables
Synonyms: bodiedcorporalcorporateincarnate

Open English WordNet

Adjective (1)

  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”Synonyms: bodiedcorporalcorporateincarnateOpposite immaterialSimilar corporeal, material
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

“embodied” is listed under Embody.

Em·bod′y transitive verb [past tense & past participle Embodied; present participle & verbal noun Embodying.]

To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise. [Written also imbody.]

Devils embodied and disembodied.— Sir Walter Scott
The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin.— Robert South

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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