Incarnate
[ɪn'kɑːnət] or [ɪn'kɑrnət]
Definition
(verb.) make concrete and real.
(verb.) represent in bodily form; 'He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system'; 'The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist'.
(adj.) invested with a bodily form especially of a human body; 'a monarch...regarded as a god incarnate' .
Edited by Gail--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not in the flesh; spiritual.
(a.) Invested with flesh; embodied in a human nature and form; united with, or having, a human body.
(a.) Flesh-colored; rosy; red.
(v. t.) To clothe with flesh; to embody in flesh; to invest, as spirits, ideals, etc., with a human from or nature.
(v. i.) To form flesh; to granulate, as a wound.
Inputed by Jeff
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Clothe with flesh, embody in flesh.
Checker: Millicent
Definition
v.t. to embody in flesh.—v.i. to form flesh heal.—adj. invested with flesh.—n. Incarnā′tion act of embodying in flesh: (theol.) the union of the divine nature with the human in the divine person of Christ: an incarnate form: manifestation visible embodiment: (surg.) the process of healing or forming new flesh.
Editor: Madge
Examples
- And both the Olympian and Englishman incarnate in a Greek, said the Demarch graciously. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He was a devil incarnate. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Woodrow Wilson understands easily, but he does not incarnate: he has never been a part of the protest he speaks. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Charley had always regarded Eustacia as Eustacia had regarded Clym when she first beheld him--as a romantic and sweet vision, scarcely incarnate. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- He is such an incarnate hypocrite, that whatever object he pursues, he must pursue crookedly. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Nature is incarnate reason. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Hate and Murder and Madness incarnate she stood. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- In such a test the Christian myth, for example, would be valued for its power of incarnating human desire. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typist: Sharif