incarnate

Verb · Adjective
Synonyms: body forthembodysubstantiatebodiedcorporalcorporateembodied

WordNet 3.0

Verb (2)

  1. make concrete and real
  2. represent in bodily form“He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system”“The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist”Synonyms: body forthembodysubstantiate

Adjective (2)

  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: bodiedcorporalcorporateembodied
  2. invested with a bodily form especially of a human body“a monarch...regarded as a god incarnate”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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]

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]

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]

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]

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