Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Invested with bodily nature and form.
- adjective Embodied in human form; personified.
- adjective Incarnadine.
- transitive verb To give bodily, especially human, form to.
- transitive verb To personify.
- transitive verb To realize in action or fact; actualize.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Not in the flesh; spiritual.
- adjective Invested with flesh; embodied in a human nature and form; united with, or having, a human body.
- adjective obsolete Flesh-colored; rosy; red.
- transitive verb To clothe with flesh; to embody in flesh; to invest, as spirits, ideals, etc., with a human from or nature.
- intransitive verb rare To form flesh; to granulate, as a wound.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Embodied in
flesh ; given abodily , especially ahuman , form;personified . - adjective obsolete Flesh-colored,
crimson . - verb obsolete, intransitive To
incarn ; to become covered with flesh, to heal over. - verb transitive To make
carnal , to reduce the spiritual nature of. - verb transitive To
embody in flesh,invest with a bodily, especially a human, form. - verb transitive To put into or represent in a
concrete form, as anidea .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make concrete and real
- adjective invested with a bodily form especially of a human body
- adjective possessing or existing in bodily form
- verb represent in bodily form
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English, from Late Latin incarnātus, past participle of incarnāre, to make flesh : Latin in-, causative pref.; see in– + Latin carō, carn-, flesh; see sker- in Indo-European roots.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Ecclesiastical Latin incarnatus, past participle of incarnari ("be made flesh"), from in- + caro ("flesh").
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From the past participle stem of Latin incarnare ("make flesh"), from in- + caro ("flesh").
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