embody, be, personify
(verb) represent, as of a character on stage; “Derek Jacobi was Hamlet”
incarnate, body forth, embody, substantiate
(verb) represent in bodily form; “He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system”; “The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist”
embody
(verb) represent or express something abstract in tangible form; “This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
embody (third-person singular simple present embodies, present participle embodying, simple past and past participle embodied)
(transitive) To represent in a physical or concrete form; to incarnate or personify.
(transitive) To represent in some other form, such as a code of laws.
(transitive) To comprise or include as part of a cohesive whole; to be made up of.
(intransitive) To unite in a body or mass.
• (represent in physical form): actualize, concretize, effigiate, materialize, objectify, realize, reify, thingify
• (include or represent): embrace, encompass, enfold
• (unite in a body or mass): fuse, integrate, merge; see also coalesce
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Source: Wiktionary
Em*bod"y, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embodied; p. pr. & vb. n. Embodying.]
Definition: 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 W. Scott. The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin. South.
Em*bod"y, v. i.
Definition: To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce. [Written also imbody.] Firmly to embody against this court party. Burke.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
3 April 2025
(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
