Meaning of INCARNATE
Pronunciation: | | [adj]in'kârnit, [v]in'kârneyt, in'kârnut
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- [adj] invested with a bodily form especially of a human body; "a monarch...regarded as a god incarnate"
- [adj] possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term"
- [v] make concrete and real
- [v] represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist"
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| Synonyms: | | bodied, body forth, corporal, corporate, corporeal, embodied, embody, material, substantiate |
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| Antonyms: | | disincarnate | |
| See Also: | | actualise, actualize, be, realise, realize, substantiate | |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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.
\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.
\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.
\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.
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