Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

Embody \Em*bod"y\, v. i.
   To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce.
   [Written also {imbody}.]

         Firmly to embody against this court party. --Burke.

Source : WordNet®

embody
     v 1: represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil
          wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the
          feelings of the artist" [syn: {incarnate}, {body forth},
           {substantiate}]
     2: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was
        Hamlet" [syn: {be}, {personify}]
     3: represent or express something abstract in tangible form;
        "This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic
        period"
     [also: {embodied}]