embody : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: embody	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for embody
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
embody v 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 represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet" Synonym(s): embody, be, personify represent or express something abstract in tangible form; "This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Embody \Embod"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Embodied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Embodying}.] To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody* one's ideas in a treatise. [Written also {imbody}.] Devils embodied and disembodied. --Sir W. Scott. The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin. --South.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Embody \Embod"y\, v. i. To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce. [Written also {imbody}.] Firmly to embody* against this court party. --Burke.