INCARNATE

incarnate

(adjective) invested with a bodily form especially of a human body; “a monarch...regarded as a god incarnate”

bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied, incarnate

(adjective) possessing or existing in bodily form; “what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind”- Shakespeare; “an incarnate spirit”; “‘corporate’ is an archaic term”

incarnate

(verb) make concrete and real

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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology 1

Adjective

incarnate (not comparable)

(postpositive) Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.

(obsolete) Flesh-colored, crimson.

Etymology 2

Verb

incarnate (third-person singular simple present incarnates, present participle incarnating, simple past and past participle incarnated)

(transitive) To embody in flesh, invest with a bodily, especially a human, form.

(obsolete, intransitive) To incarn; to become covered with flesh, to heal over.

(transitive, figurative) To put into or represent in a concrete form, as an idea.

Etymology 3

Adjective

incarnate (not comparable)

Not in the flesh; spiritual.

Anagrams

• Nectarian, in a canter, nectarian

Source: Wiktionary


In*car"nate, a. Etym: [Pref. in- not + carnate.]

Definition: Not in the flesh; spiritual. [Obs.] I fear nothing . . . that devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do. Richardson.

In*car"nate, a. Etym: [L. incarnatus, p. p. of incarnare to incarnate, pref. in- in + caro, carnis, flesh. See Carnal.]

1. Invested with flesh; embodied in a human nature and form; united with, or having, a human body. Here shalt thou sit incarnate. Milton. He represents the emperor and his wife as two devils incarnate, sent into the world for the destruction of mankind. Jortin.

2. Flesh-colored; rosy; red. [Obs.] Holland.

In*car"nate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Incarnated; p. pr. & vb. n. Incarnating.]

Definition: To clothe with flesh; to embody in flesh; to invest, as spirits, ideals, etc., with a human from or nature. This essence to incarnate and imbrute, That to the height of deity aspired. Milton.

In*car"nate, v. i.

Definition: To form flesh; to granulate, as a wound. [R.] My uncle Toby's wound was nearly well -- 't was just beginning to incarnate. Sterne.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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