3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Embody \Em*bod"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 \Em*bod"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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
embody
v 1: represent in bodily form "He embodies all that is evil
wrong with the system" [syn: {incarnate}, {body forth}]
2: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was
Hamlet" [syn: {be}, {personify}]
3: represent or express something abstract in tangible form
"This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic
period"
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