incarnate

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},
           {incarnate}]
    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: {incarnate}, {body forth}, {embody},
       {substantiate}]
    

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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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