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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

EMBOD'Y, v.t. [en,in, and body.] To form or collect into a body or united mass; to collect into a whole; to incorporate; to concentrate; as, to embody troops; to embody detached sentiments.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: 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]
2: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet" [syn: embody, be, personify]
3: represent or express something abstract in tangible form; "This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period"

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (embodied; embodying) Date: circa 1548 1. to give a body to (a spirit) ; incarnate 2. a. to deprive of spirituality b. to make concrete and perceptible 3. to cause to become a body or part of a body ; incorporate 4. to represent in human or animal form ; personify <men who greatly embodied the idealism of American life — A. M. Schlesinger b1917> • embodier noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. (-ies, -ied) 1 give a concrete or discernible form to (an idea, concept, etc.). 2 (of a thing or person) be an expression of (an idea etc.). 3 express tangibly (courage embodied in heroic actions). 4 form into a body. 5 include, comprise. 6 provide (a spirit) with bodily form. Derivatives: embodiment n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Embody Em*bod"y, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embodied; p. pr. & vb. n. Embodying.] To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise. [Written also imbody.] Devils embodied and disembodied. --Sir W. Scott. The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin. --South.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Embody Em*bod"y, v. i. To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce. [Written also imbody.] Firmly to embody against this court party. --Burke.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(embodies, embodying, embodied) 1. To embody an idea or quality means to be a symbol or expression of that idea or quality. Jack Kennedy embodied all the hopes of the 1960s... That stability was embodied in the Gandhi family. = represent VERB: V n, be V-ed in/by n 2. If something is embodied in a particular thing, the second thing contains or consists of the first. The proposal has been embodied in a draft resolution... UK employment law embodies arbitration and conciliation mechanisms for settling industrial disputes. VERB: be V-ed in/by n, V n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. 1. Invest with a body, make corporeal, form into a body, incarnate. 2. Incorporate, concentrate, compact, integrate, combine, collect into a whole, draw into one mass. 3. Comprehend, include, embrace, comprise, contain. 4. Systematize, methodize, codify.

Moby Thesaurus

absorb, actualize, add, admit, adumbrate, affect, amalgamate, assemble, assimilate, betoken, blend, body, body forth, brandish, breathe, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to notice, build, build up, coalesce, codify, collect, combine, come together, complete, compose, compound, comprehend, comprise, concentrate, concretize, connect, consist of, consolidate, constitute, construct, contain, corporealize, corporify, count in, cover, dangle, demonstrate, develop, disclose, display, divulge, dramatize, emblematize, embrace, enact, encircle, enclose, encompass, enter into, entify, envisage, epitomize, evidence, evince, exemplify, exhibit, expose to view, express, exteriorize, externalize, fabricate, figure, fill, fill in, fill out, flaunt, flourish, flux, foreshadow, form, fuse, give sign, give token, go into, have, highlight, hold, hypostatize, illuminate, illustrate, image, impersonate, incarnate, include, incorporate, indicate, integrate, interblend, interfuse, involve, join, lend substance to, lump together, make, make clear, make one, make plain, make up, manifest, materialize, mean, meld, melt into one, merge, merge in, mirror, mix, number among, objectify, occupy, organize, parade, perform, personalize, personate, personify, piece together, prefigure, present, pretypify, produce, project, put together, realize, receive, reckon among, reckon in, reckon with, reembody, reflect, reify, reincarnate, represent, reveal, roll into one, roll out, set forth, shade into, shadow, shadow forth, show, show forth, solidify, spotlight, stand for, structure, substantialize, substantiate, substantify, subsume, symbolize, syncretize, syndicate, synthesize, systematize, take in, take into account, take into consideration, take up, token, transmigrate, trot out, typify, unfold, unify, unite, unite in, wave