Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Invested with or embodied in flesh: same as the modern incarnate, which, however, is used in the following extract as if the in- were privative.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Invested with, or embodied in, flesh.

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  • adjective Invested with, or embodied in, flesh.

Etymologies

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Latin carnatus fleshy.

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Examples

  • According to Charles Muses in his essay "The Ageless Way of Goddess; Divine Pregnancy and Higher Birth in Ancient Egypt and China," the "theurgy" (literally, a divine working - theo + urg) - showed the way to a divine rebirth while still carnate, a method of creating an eternal body (he called it a "higher body") that would be available to one upon death.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Jan 2008

  • If ai were gonna re-in carnate, ai wud probly pick a noo name

    reenkarnashun - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • I fear nothing (as I know who has said) that devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do against a virtue so established.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • It is said to be observable when a person dies and the soul reverts from the carnate to the disincarnate state.

    DEATH AND IMMORTALITY JACQUES CHORON 1968

  • But I think you should stay closer to the facts, treat the sky-folk as carnate beings rather than Powers ... though of course you'll omit the fact that they can't come here themselves.

    Three Worlds To Conquer Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1964

  • "From your use of the present tense, I assume you believe her to be still carnate."

    Last Enemy H. Beam Piper 1934

  • The Lady Dallona is still carnate, or was four days ago, and the same for Dirzed.

    Last Enemy H. Beam Piper 1934

  • And I'll hold you responsible with your carnate existence for the Lord Virzal's safety in this hotel.

    Last Enemy H. Beam Piper 1934

  • "Well, I intend acting upon the assumption that she is still carnate and in need of help, until I am positive to the contrary," Verkan Vall said.

    Last Enemy H. Beam Piper 1934

  • "If you're right -- and that's the way it looks to me, too -- he's probably just called in and notified the Society that he's still carnate and so is the Lady Dallona, and called off any search the Society might be making for him."

    Last Enemy H. Beam Piper 1934

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