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5 definitions found 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. 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\, 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 WordNet r 1.6 [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}] 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" [syn: {body forth}, {embody}]
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