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Incarnate - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Incarnate : adj
1: possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed corporal
melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an
incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term"
[syn: bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied]
2: invested with a bodily form especially of a human body; "a
monarch...regarded as a god incarnate"
(verb)
1: make concrete and real [ant: disincarnate]
2: represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil
wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the
feelings of the artist" [syn: body forth, embody, substantiate]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Incarnate : \In*car"nate\, a. [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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Incarnate : \In*car"nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Incarnated; p.
pr. & vb. n. Incarnating.]
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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Incarnate : \In*car"nate\, a. [Pref. in- not _ carnate.]
Not in the flesh; spiritual. [Obs.]
I fear nothing . . . that devil carnate or incarnate
can fairly do. --Richardson.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Incarnate : \In*car"nate\, v. i.
To form flesh; to granulate, as a wound. [R.]
My uncle Toby's wound was nearly well -- 't was just
beginning to incarnate. --Sterne.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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