incarnate
verb
- giving/taking on bodily form
adjective
- given a body of flesh
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈkɑːɹ.nɪt/ / /ɪnˈkɑːɹ.neɪt/ / /ˈɪnkɑːneɪt/
adj
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English carnate English incarnate From in- + carnate.
- Not in the flesh; spiritual.
“I fear nothing […] that devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do.”
verb
Etymology: First attested in 1533; borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin incarnātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
- To embody in flesh; to invest with a bodily, especially a human, form.
“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.”
- To gain full existence (bodily or otherwise).
“SCP-3125 incarnated the following winter.”
- To incarn; to become covered with flesh; to heal over.
“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.”
- To make carnal; to reduce the spiritual nature of.
“This essence to incarnate and imbrute, / That to the height of deity aspired.”
- To put into or represent in a concrete form, as an idea.
“Truly, that special world presented itself to me as the arena of my perceptual activity and therefore as the world of my first reading. The texts, the words, the letters of that context were incarnated in a series of things, objects, and signs.”
“Responding to this in confusion, perhaps you construct an Idea, a structure, a multiplicity, a system of multiple, nonlocalisable ideal connections which is then incarnated. It is incarnated in real (not ideal) relations and actual (physical) terms, each of which exists in relation to each other, reciprocally determining each other.”