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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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