English Dictionary: incarnate | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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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. |