Incarnate \In*car"nate\, a. [L. incarnatus, p. p. of incarnare
to incarnate, pref. in- in + caro, carnis, flesh. See
Carnal.]
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1. Invested with flesh; embodied in a human nature and form;
united with, or having, a human body.
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Here shalt thou sit incarnate. --Milton.
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He represents the emperor and his wife as two devils
incarnate, sent into the world for the destruction
of mankind. --Jortin.
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2. Flesh-colored; rosy; red. [Obs.] --Holland.
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Incarnate \In*car"nate\, a. [Pref. in- not + carnate.]
Not in the flesh; spiritual. [Obs.]
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I fear nothing . . . that devil carnate or incarnate
can fairly do. --Richardson.
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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.
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This essence to incarnate and imbrute,
That to the height of deity aspired. --Milton.
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Incarnate \In*car"nate\, v. i.
To form flesh; to granulate, as a wound. [R.]
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My uncle Toby's wound was nearly well -- 't was just
beginning to incarnate. --Sterne.
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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"
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
137 Moby Thesaurus words for "incarnate":
Christlike, Christly, adumbrate, affect, atavistic, betoken,
bodily, body, body forth, born, brandish, breathe, bring forth,
bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to notice,
celestial, coeval, concretize, congenital, connatal, connate,
connatural, constitutional, corporealize, corporify, dangle,
demonstrate, develop, disclose, display, divine, divulge,
dramatize, embodied, embody, empyrean, enact, entify, evidence,
evince, exemplify, exhibit, expose to view, express, exteriorize,
externalize, figure, flaunt, flourish, foreshadow, genetic,
give sign, give token, godlike, godly, heavenly, hereditary,
highlight, hypostatize, illuminate, illustrate, image, impersonate,
in the blood, inborn, inbred, incarnated, incorporate,
incorporated, indicate, indigenous, inherited, innate, instinctive,
instinctual, intercessional, intercessive, lend substance to,
made flesh, make clear, make plain, manifest, materialize, mean,
mediative, mediatory, mirror, native, native to, natural,
natural to, organic, parade, perform, personate, personify,
physical, prefigure, present, pretypify, primal, produce, project,
propitiative, propitiatory, realize, redemptive, reembody, reflect,
reify, reincarnate, represent, reveal, roll out, salvational,
self-existent, set forth, shadow, shadow forth, show, show forth,
solidify, spotlight, substantialize, substantiate, substantify,
superhuman, supernatural, temperamental, token, transcendent,
transmigrate, trot out, unfold, wave
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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