Embody
[ɪm'bɒdɪ;em-] or [ɪm'bɑdi]
Definition
(verb.) represent, as of a character on stage; 'Derek Jacobi was Hamlet'.
(verb.) represent or express something abstract in tangible form; 'This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period'.
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Definition
(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce.
Checker: Seymour
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Invest with a body, make corporeal, form into a body.[2]. Incorporate, concentrate, compact, integrate, combine, collect into a whole, draw into one mass.[3]. Comprehend, include, embrace, comprise, contain.[4]. Systematize, methodize, codify.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Express, methodize, systematize, codify, incorporate, aggregate, integrate,compact, introduce, enlist, combine
ANT:Eliminate, segregate, analyze, dissipate, disintegrate, dismember, colliquats,disband, disembody
Checker: Rupert
Definition
v.t. to form into a body: to make corporeal: to make tangible: to express (an idea in words): to organise.—v.i. to unite in a body or mass.—p.adj. Embod′ied.—n. Embod′iment act of embodying: state of being embodied: that in which something is embodied.
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Examples
- We have endeavored here to embody all the answers to questions that we suppose may be asked. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Not that it behoved or beseemed me to say anything: but one can occasionally _look_ the opinion it is forbidden to embody in words. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The report happens to embody what I conceive to be most of the faults of a political method now decadent. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Humanity doesn't embody the utterance of the incomprehensible any more. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- A few words will embody my farther knowledge respecting her. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The work of Bryan has been to express a certain feeling of unrest--to embody it in the traditional language of prophecy. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Their practical value cannot be ignored, for they embody the motor currents in social life. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Under such high patronage most of the ideas and principles of ordnance now prevailing were discovered or suggested, but were embodied for the most part in rude and inefficient contrivances. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Only by starting with crude material and subjecting it to purposeful handling will he gain the intelligence embodied in finished material. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I announced myself and was disposed of with the highly satisfactory results embodied before you. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- No one expects the young to make original discoveries of just the same facts and principles as are embodied in the sciences of nature and man. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- They gain an imaginary distinctness when embodied in a State or in a system of philosophy, but they still remain the visions of 'a world unrealized. Plato. The Republic.
- It embodied, as leading features, the steam blast and the multitubular boiler, which latter was six feet long and had twenty-five three-inch tubes. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This empire embodied a tradition much more ancient than that of Rome. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Besides the Sholes patents, it embodies the improvements covered by patents to Clough & Jenne, No. 199,263, Jan. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It is democratic machinery with an educated citizenship behind it that embodies all the fears of the conservative and the hopes of the radical. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We have what are almost certainly the authentic heads of his discourse to the five disciples which embodies his essential doctrine. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The largest part of gas manufacture, which has become so extensive, embodies the basic idea of the Lowe process. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Platonism is a very refined and beautiful expression of our natural instincts, it embodies conscience and utters our inmost hopes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The principle just stated embodies one of the fundamental laws of science, called the law of the _conservation of matter_. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This patent embodies but two claims, which are as follows: 1. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- At this juncture a large part of the correspondence referred very naturally to electric lighting, embodying requests for all kinds of information, catalogues, prices, terms, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A battery embodying this basic principle will have features of great value where lightness and durability are desiderata. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Various analogies next pointed to the use of heat, and the thermoelectric cell emerged, embodying the application of flame to the junction of two different metals. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Acting upon Mr. Hall’s suggestion, Mr. Duncan, in a short time, perfected a larger chain addressograph, operated by foot-lever and embodying several important improvements. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- HE COPIED OUT PAINSTAKINGLY THE ENTIRE PAPER IN LONG HAND, embodying the corrections as he went along, and presented the result of his work the following morning. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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