From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Incarnate \In*car"nate\, a. [Pref. in- not + carnate.]
Not in the flesh; spiritual. [Obs.]
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I fear nothing . . . that devil carnate or incarnate
can fairly do. --Richardson.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Incarnate \In*car"nate\, a. [L. incarnatus, p. p. of incarnare
to incarnate, pref. in- in + caro, carnis, flesh. See
{Carnal}.]
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1. Invested with flesh; embodied in a human nature and form;
united with, or having, a human body.
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Here shalt thou sit incarnate. --Milton.
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He represents the emperor and his wife as two devils
incarnate, sent into the world for the destruction
of mankind. --Jortin.
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2. Flesh-colored; rosy; red. [Obs.] --Holland.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Incarnate \In*car"nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Incarnated}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Incarnating}.]
To clothe with flesh; to embody in flesh; to invest, as
spirits, ideals, etc., with a human from or nature.
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This essence to incarnate and imbrute,
That to the height of deity aspired. --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Incarnate \In*car"nate\, v. i.
To form flesh; to granulate, as a wound. [R.]
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My uncle Toby's wound was nearly well -- 't was just
beginning to incarnate. --Sterne.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
incarnate
adj 1: possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed
corporal melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare;
"an incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term"
[syn: {bodied}, {corporal}, {corporate}, {embodied},
{incarnate}]
2: invested with a bodily form especially of a human body; "a
monarch...regarded as a god incarnate"
v 1: make concrete and real [ant: {disincarnate}]
2: represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil wrong
with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of
the artist" [syn: {incarnate}, {body forth}, {embody},
{substantiate}]
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