Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Invested with bodily nature and form: an incarnate spirit.
- adj. Embodied in human form; personified: a villain who is evil incarnate.
- adj. Incarnadine.
- v. To give bodily, especially human, form to.
- v. To personify.
- v. To realize in action or fact; actualize: a community that incarnates its founders' ideals.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To clothe with flesh; embody in flesh.
- To form flesh; heal, as a wound, by granulation.
- Invested with flesh; embodied in flesh.
- Of a red color; flesh-colored.
- Not carnate or in the flesh; divested of a body; disembodied.
Wiktionary
- adj. Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.
- adj. obsolete Flesh-colored, crimson.
- v. obsolete, intransitive To incarn; to become covered with flesh, to heal over.
- v. transitive To make carnal, to reduce the spiritual nature of.
- v. transitive To embody in flesh, invest with a bodily, especially a human, form.
- v. transitive To put into or represent in a concrete form, as an idea.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Not in the flesh; spiritual.
- adj. Invested with flesh; embodied in a human nature and form; united with, or having, a human body.
- adj. obsolete Flesh-colored; rosy; red.
- v. To clothe with flesh; to embody in flesh; to invest, as spirits, ideals, etc., with a human from or nature.
- v. rare To form flesh; to granulate, as a wound.
WordNet 3.0
- v. make concrete and real
- adj. invested with a bodily form especially of a human body
- adj. possessing or existing in bodily form
- v. represent in bodily form
Etymologies
- From the past participle stem of Latin incarnare ("make flesh"), from in- + caro ("flesh"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Late Latin incarnātus, past participle of incarnāre, to make flesh : Latin in-, causative pref.; see in-2 + Latin carō, carn-, flesh; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Bill used the word incarnate when describing Obama.”
“So I brought out the dirhams and sat down to await his return; but he stayed away from me a third month, and I said, “Verily this young man is liberality in incarnate form.””
“Although we might be tempted to see Spencer as evil incarnate, is there anything that might help us to understand him, or, at least to some extent, to empathize with him?”
“Jesus is the word incarnate … Hence the word is Christ”
“Notice the Latin root incarnare which we find in the English word incarnate.”
“First, some of the schoolmen have found no other respect wherefore the manhood of Christ can be said to be adored, (728) except this, that the flesh of Christ is adored by him who adores the word incarnate, even as the king’s clothes are adored by him who adores the king.”
“In this they were standing upon the high ground taken by Richard Baxter, an authority among the Puritans, who, denouncing the use of the slaves as beasts for their mere commodity, said, that their masters who "betray or destroy or neglect their souls are fitter to be called incarnate devils than Christians though they be no Christian whom they so abuse.”
“That the idea of incarnate deity should be found in pre-Christian Hindu thought is not so remarkable when we consider that it answers to the yearning of the human heart for union with God.”
“He argues that if the three Divine Persons form but one God all three have become incarnate, which is inadmissible.”
“Such a being would really deserve to be called the incarnate "word of God.”
Lists
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EN - fine scholarly language
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probablyankita's list
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
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Unknown
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GRE Barron's 800
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RELI - words with Biblical connotations
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moshe's list
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mycological hues
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kalidas's Words
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quality words
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