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incarnate

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

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.

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.

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.

Source : WordNet®

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"
     v 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}]
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