Embodied
[im'bɔdid]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Embody
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Examples
- 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.
- It embodied a reciprocating saw tooth cutter _f_ sliding within double guard fingers _e_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- They could have been embodied by interlineations and marginal notes in the ordinary way, and certainly would not have required more than ten or fifteen minutes of his time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- As will be seen, this machine bears but little resemblance to any of the modern machines, but it embodied the three essential features which characterize most all practical machines, viz. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Yet the whole nation can't sit at one table: the politician will object that all human interests can't be embodied in a party program. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Both of them employed the bolt system as previously embodied in the needle gun, but added to it the magazine principle and changed the method of supplying and feeding the cartridges. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- She was like Hope embodied, to me. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The ruthless exploitation of India becomes the civilizing fulfilment of the white man's burden; not infrequently the missionary, drummer, and prospector are embodied in one man. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In 1845 he secured a second patent, which embodied many improvements--the principal ones referring to the cutting mechanism. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The first practical reaper taken into the field in 1831 embodied the essential parts of the reaper with which we are familiar. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It embodied, for the practical purpose of transmitting articulate speech to distances, the union of the two great forces,--sound and electricity. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Although the principle of the dynamo was clearly embodied in the Hjorth patent, its value was not appreciated until some time later. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The teaching of Confucius centred upon the idea of a noble life which he embodied in a standard or ideal, the Aristocratic Man. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Gibbs invented and covered in several patents from 1856 to 1860 the single-thread rotating hook, which was embodied in the Wilcox & Gibbs machine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- To her, what hurts becomes immediately embodied: she looks on it as a thing that can be attacked, worried down, torn in shreds. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She paused, embarrassed and yet smiling, and Archer suddenly saw before him the embodied image of the Family. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The lineaments which will get embodied in ideals based upon this new recognition will probably be akin to those of Yeobright. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- A certain institution in Mr Podsnap's mind which he called 'the young person' may be considered to have been embodied in Miss Podsnap, his daughter. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Poets and painters have adorned it; and in its manufacture have been embodied through all ages the choicest discoveries of the chemist, the inventor and the mechanic. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- All this information was embodied graphically in large maps of the district, by annotations in colored inks; and Edison thus could study the question with every detail before him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But it was only under Hulagu in Mesopotamia that these ideas seem to have been embodied in a deliberate policy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He wanted what a nation wanted: his own power radiated power; he embodied a vision; Tom, Dick and Harry moved with his movement. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- You came the embodied image of my fondest dreams. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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