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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INC`ARNATE, v.t. [L. incarno; in and caro, flesh.]
To clothe with flesh; to embody in flesh.
INC`ARNATE, a. Invested with flesh; embodied in flesh; a the incarnate Son of God.
1. In Scotland, of a red color; flesh-colored.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Etymology: Middle English incarnat, from Late Latin incarnatus, past participle of incarnare to incarnate, from Latin in- + carn-, caro flesh — more at carnal Date: 14th century 1. a. invested with bodily and especially human nature and form b. made manifest or comprehensible ; embodied <a fiend incarnate> 2. incarnadine <incarnate clover> II. transitive verb (-nated; -nating) Date: 1533 to make incarnate: as a. to give bodily form and substance to <incarnates the devil as a serpent> b. (1) to give a concrete or actual form to ; actualize (2) to constitute an embodiment or type of <no one culture incarnates every important human value — Denis Goulet>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & v. --adj. 1 (of a person, spirit, quality, etc.) embodied in flesh, esp. in human form (is the devil incarnate). 2 represented in a recognizable or typical form (folly incarnate). --v.tr. 1 embody in flesh. 2 put (an idea etc.) into concrete form; realize. 3 (of a person etc.) be the living embodiment of (a quality). Etymology: ME f. eccl.L incarnare incarnat- make flesh (as IN-(2), L caro carnis flesh)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Incarnate In*car"nate, a. [L. incarnatus, p. p. of incarnare to incarnate, pref. in- in + caro, carnis, flesh. See Carnal.] 1. Invested with flesh; embodied in a human nature and form; united with, or having, a human body. Here shalt thou sit incarnate. --Milton. He represents the emperor and his wife as two devils incarnate, sent into the world for the destruction of mankind. --Jortin. 2. Flesh-colored; rosy; red. [Obs.] --Holland.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Incarnate In*car"nate, a. [Pref. in- not + carnate.] Not in the flesh; spiritual. [Obs.] I fear nothing . . . that devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do. --Richardson.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Incarnate In*car"nate, v. i. To form flesh; to granulate, as a wound. [R.] My uncle Toby's wound was nearly well -- 't was just beginning to incarnate. --Sterne.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(incarnating, incarnated) 1. If you say that someone is a quality incarnate, you mean that they represent that quality or are typical of it in an extreme form. She is evil incarnate... = personified ADJ: n ADJ 2. You use incarnate to say that something, especially a god or spirit, is represented in human form. Why should God become incarnate as a male?... ADJ: v-link ADJ, n ADJ, ADJ n 3. If you say that a quality is incarnated in a person, you mean that they represent that quality or are typical of it in an extreme form. The iniquities of the regime are incarnated in one man. ...a writer who incarnates the changing consciousness of the Americas. = embody VERB: be V-ed in n, V n 4. If you say that someone or something is incarnated in a particular form, you mean that they appear on earth in that form. The god Vishnu was incarnated on earth as a king. VERB: usu passive, be V-ed prep

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Clothe with flesh, embody in flesh.

Moby Thesaurus

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