Incarnate

/ɪnˈkɑːɹ.nɪt/ · adjective

Meaning

(traditionally postpositive, now frequently prepositive) Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified..

Definitions by Sense

1. (traditionally postpositive, now frequently prepositive) Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.
2. (obsolete) Flesh-colored; crimson.
3. (intransitive) To embody in flesh; to invest with a bodily, especially a human, form.
4. (intransitive, by extension) To gain full existence (bodily or otherwise).
5. (obsolete, intransitive) To incarn; to become covered with flesh; to heal over.
6. (transitive) To make carnal; to reduce the spiritual nature of.
7. (transitive, figurative) To put into or represent in a concrete form, as an idea.
8. (rare) Not in the flesh; spiritual.

Example Sentences

1751-1753, John Jortin, Remarks on Ecclesiastical History He […] represents the emperor and his wife as two devils incarnate, sent into the world for the destruction of mankind.

Here shalt thou sit incarnate.

Yards of Turkey silk incarnate.

For one thing, we virtually decided that these morbidities and the hellish Himalayan Mi-Go were one and the same order of incarnated nightmare.

Not all of the soul can incarnate into a body; the part which is left above is the psyche.

SCP-3125 incarnated the following winter.

My uncle Toby’s wound was near well, and as soon as the surgeon recovered his surprize, and could get leave to say as much—he told him, 'twas just beginning to incarnate.

This essence to incarnate and imbrute, / That to the height of deity aspired.

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Word Forms

• incarnates
• incarnating
• incarnated

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