Incarnate

Quick meaning: Incarnate is an adjective meaning (traditionally postpositive, now frequently prepositive) Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

Here shalt thou sit incarnate.

Yards of Turkey silk incarnate.

SCP-3125 incarnated the following winter.

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

Word Forms

• incarnates
• incarnating
• incarnated

Synonyms for incarnate

Depending on context, synonyms include corporeal, embody, corporal, embodied, material, corporate.

Antonyms for incarnate

Common opposites include disincarnate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include embody, corporeal, material, corporal, bodied, corporate.

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