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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INCARNA'TION, n. The act of clothing with flesh.
1. The act of assuming flesh, or of taking a human body and the nature of man; as the incarnation of the Son of God.
2. In surgery, the process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a new personification of a familiar idea; "the embodiment of hope"; "the incarnation of evil"; "the very avatar of cunning" [syn: embodiment, incarnation, avatar]
2: (Christianity) the Christian doctrine of the union of God and man in the person of Jesus Christ
3: time passed in a particular bodily form; "he believes that his life will be better in his next incarnation"
4: the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc. [syn: personification, incarnation]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 14th century 1. a. (1) the embodiment of a deity or spirit in some earthly form (2) capitalized the union of divinity with humanity in Jesus Christ b. a concrete or actual form of a quality or concept; especially a person showing a trait or typical character to a marked degree <she is the incarnation of goodness> 2. the act of incarnating ; the state of being incarnate 3. a particular physical form or state ; version <in another incarnation he might be a first vice-president — Walter Teller> <TV and movie incarnations of the story> • incarnational adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a embodiment in (esp. human) flesh. b (the Incarnation) Theol. the embodiment of God the Son in human flesh as Jesus Christ. 2 (often foll. by of) a living type (of a quality etc.). 3 Med. the process of forming new flesh. Etymology: ME f. OF f. eccl.L incarnatio -onis (as INCARNATE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Incarnation In`car*na"tion, n. [F. incarnation, LL. incarnatio.] 1. The act of clothing with flesh, or the state of being so clothed; the act of taking, or being manifested in, a human body and nature. 2. (Theol.) The union of the second person of the Godhead with manhood in Christ. 3. An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a reduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification in person or act. She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead. --Jeffrey. The very incarnation of selfishness. --F. W. Robertson. 4. A rosy or red color; flesh color; carnation. [Obs.] 5. (Med.) The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(incarnations) 1. If you say that someone is the incarnation of a particular quality, you mean that they represent that quality or are typical of it in an extreme form. The regime was the very incarnation of evil... = embodiment N-COUNT: N of n 2. An incarnation is an instance of being alive on earth in a particular form. Some religions believe that people have several incarnations in different forms. She began recalling a series of previous incarnations... N-COUNT

Easton's Bible Dictionary

that act of grace whereby Christ took our human nature into union with his Divine Person, became man. Christ is both God and man. Human attributes and actions are predicated of him, and he of whom they are predicated is God. A Divine Person was united to a human nature (Acts 20:28; Rom. 8:32; 1 Cor. 2:8; Heb. 2:11-14; 1 Tim. 3:16; Gal. 4:4, etc.). The union is hypostatical, i.e., is personal; the two natures are not mixed or confounded, and it is perpetual.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

in-kar-na'-shun.

See PERSON OF CHRIST.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Incarnating. 2. Hypostatic union. 3. Impersonation, personification, exemplification, bodily manifestation.

Moby Thesaurus

Christophany, Satanophany, acting, angelophany, aping, apparition, appearance, appearing, arising, avatar, characterization, coming, coming into being, coming-forth, concretization, corporealization, disclosure, dissemination, dumb show, embodiment, emergence, enacting, enactment, epiphany, evidence, evincement, exposure, expression, forthcoming, imitation, impersonation, incorporation, indication, issuance, manifestation, masquerade, materialization, materializing, metempsychosis, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, occurrence, opening, pantomime, pantomiming, performance, performing, personation, personification, playing, pneumatophany, portrayal, posing, presentation, proof, publication, realization, reembodiment, reification, reincarnation, revelation, rise, rising, showing, showing forth, substantiation, theophany, transmigration, unfolding, unfoldment, wild