Embody \Em*bod"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Embodied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Embodying}.] 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.