DEEn Dictionary De - En
DeEs De - Es
DePt De - Pt
 Vocabulary trainer

Spec. subjects Grammar Abbreviations Random search Preferences
Search in Sprachauswahl
incarnate
Search for:
Mini search box
 
English Dictionary: incarnate by the DICT Development Group
5 results for incarnate
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"
    Synonym(s): 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
    Antonym(s): disincarnate
  2. represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist"
    Synonym(s): incarnate, body forth, embody, substantiate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Incarnate \In*car"nate\, v. i.
      To form flesh; to granulate, as a wound. [R.]
  
               My uncle Toby's wound was nearly well -- 't was just
               beginning to incarnate.                           --Sterne.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Incarnate \In*car"nate\, a. [Pref. in- not + carnate.]
      Not in the flesh; spiritual. [Obs.]
  
               I fear nothing . . . that devil carnate or incarnate
               can fairly do.                                       --Richardson.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Incarnate \In*car"nate\, a. [L. incarnatus, p. p. of incarnare
      to incarnate, pref. in- in + caro, carnis, flesh. See
      {Carnal}.]
      1. Invested with flesh; embodied in a human nature and form;
            united with, or having, a human body.
  
                     Here shalt thou sit incarnate.            --Milton.
  
                     He represents the emperor and his wife as two devils
                     incarnate, sent into the world for the destruction
                     of mankind.                                       --Jortin.
  
      2. Flesh-colored; rosy; red. [Obs.] --Holland.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
  
               This essence to incarnate and imbrute, That to the
               height of deity aspired.                        --Milton.
No guarantee of accuracy or completeness!
©TU Chemnitz, 2006-2024
Your feedback:
Ad partners