Crossword clues for embody
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Embody \Em*bod"y\, v. i. To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce.
Firmly to embody against this court party.
--Burke.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To represent in a physical form; to incarnate or personify
WordNet
v. represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist" [syn: incarnate, body forth, substantiate]
represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet" [syn: be, personify]
represent or express something abstract in tangible form; "This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period"
[also: embodied]
Usage examples of "embody".
Then again, maybe the clip embodies an absurdist view of life that he kept hidden from his peers, most of whom perceived him to have the famished appetites and clouded sensibility of a creature in a shooter game.
It denied, in the second place, that there is any principle of law, common or otherwise, which pervades the Union except such as are embodied in the Constitution and the acts of Congress.
A resolute Alabamian, Hugo Black had grown to embody the belief that the Bill of Rights should apply to every American regardless of color or position.
Not on a par with cold water on the groin of the ambivalently embodied.
Guilt over the fact that they do not embody the magnificent sadness of politicans and the brooding sympathy of anchorpersons, that their grief is a flawed posture, streaked with the banal, with thoughts of sex and football, cable bills and job security.
Guilt over the fact that they do not embody the magnificent sadness of politicians and the brooding sympathy of anchorpersons, that their grief is a flawed posture, streaked with the banal, with thoughts of sex and football, cable bills and job security.
Napoleon by embodying the evil Apollyon in the person of a descendant of the great Emperor, and endowing him with all the qualities of his illustrious ancestor.
It was a red drama of the primitive-destruction amuck and ariot, the primordial embodied in fangs and talons, gone mad and plunging in slaughter.
They seemed to share my longing for my mother who already embodied for me the beauty of youth, who had the shiny-haired, smooth-cheeked vitality my grandparents did not have, who could do backbends and cartwheels and who owned high heeled shoes in fifteen colors who became ever more precious for her elusiveness.
Petersburg whose power crushes the insulted and injured, embodying the social injustice against which the poor student rebels, the Petersburg who grips the criminal in her stony hand?
The deuteronomic school embodied those attitudes in scripture by rewriting and reorganizing the old tales.
Several sects adopted this embodied version of the Dharmakaya, or Body of the Doctrine, which had been thought of as the Absolute beyond all form and rational apprehension.
Chemical substances and commodities, like the conspiracies, and like the dustheaps in Dickens, embody the moral defects of the society that produces them.
The works of Abul Khair, previously mentioned, and of Haji Khalfa, embody a mass of information, and constitute the top of the pyramid of encyclopaedical and biographical works, after which nothing worthy of mention has been written on these subjects.
I am Divi Filius, and I will live up to everything that the name Caesar embodies!