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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
incarnate
I.adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And he is incarnate in us all whenever we are in converse with each other, instructing or mercifully helping.
▪ He thus challenged authority simply by declaring that he was al-haqq, truth incarnate.
▪ The mental vibrations are also expressed in the aura which every incarnate being has around it.
▪ Was the future of the Rabari incarnate in this young man?
▪ With their mix of male and female imagery, snakes are sexuality incarnate.
II.verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She incarnates the innocence that makes "Don Giovanni" such a moving story.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Like the sort of heterodox culture which Mapplethorpe incarnated.
▪ The Church asserts that human beings are incarnated spirits: souls in bodies.
▪ Then you must incarnate what others incarnate.
▪ Truly great leaders such as Oppenheimer seem to incarnate the dream and become one with it.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Incarnate

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.

Incarnate

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.

Incarnate

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.

Incarnate

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
incarnate

late 14c., from Late Latin incarnatus "made flesh," a common word among early Christian writers, past participle of Latin incarnare "to make flesh" (see incarnation).

incarnate

1530s, a back-formation from incarnation, or else from Latin incarnatus, past participle of incarnare (see incarnation). Related: Incarnated; incarnating.

Wiktionary
incarnate

Etymology 1

  1. 1 Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified. 2 (context obsolete English) Flesh-colored, crimson. Etymology 2

    v

  2. 1 (context obsolete intransitive English) To incarn; to become covered with flesh, to heal over. 2 (context transitive English) To make carnal, to reduce the spiritual nature of. 3 (context transitive English) To embody in flesh, invest with a bodily, especially a human, form. 4 (context transitive English) To put into or represent in a concrete form, as an idea. Etymology 3

    a. Not in the flesh; spiritual.

WordNet
incarnate
  1. adj. 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"

  3. v. make concrete and real [ant: disincarnate]

  4. represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist" [syn: body forth, embody, substantiate]

Wikipedia
Incarnate (The Obsessed album)

Incarnate is a compilation album released by doom metal band The Obsessed. It consists of tracks taken from a number of rare and unreleased sources, namely: their Sodden Jackal and Altamont Nation 7"s, the Hellhound Records What the Hell! compilation, and some unreleased demos. There are also two cover songs: "On the Hunt" (originally by Lynyrd Skynyrd) and " Inside-Looking Out" (originally by The Animals and later covered by Grand Funk Railroad). The track "Streetside" is a video clip.

Incarnate (comics)

Incarnate is a 3-issue comic book limited series created by Nick Simmons and published by Radical Comics. Incarnate was first published in August 2009.

Incarnate (film)

Incarnate is an upcoming 2016 American supernatural horror film directed by Brad Peyton. The film stars Aaron Eckhart and Catalina Sandino Moreno.

Incarnate (Killswitch Engage album)

Incarnate is the seventh studio album by American metalcore band Killswitch Engage, released on March 11, 2016. On December 10, 2015, the band released "Strength of the Mind" as the lead single from the album. On December 16, the title of the album was revealed. The band will tour to promote the album with Memphis May Fire and 36 Crazyfists. On January 26, 2016 the track listing was revealed. On January 29, 2016, the band released their second single, "Hate by Design" from the album, along with a music video for the song. On February 19, the band released the third single titled "Cut Me Loose".

Incarnate (disambiguation)

Incarnate may refer to:

  • Incarnation, a religious concept similar to divine embodiment and manifestation
  • "Incarnation", a song by Vader from the album De Profundis
  • Incarnate (Dungeons & Dragons), the role-playing game character class
  • Incarnate (The Obsessed album), an album by The Obsessed
  • Incarnate (Killswitch Engage album), an album by Killswitch Engage
  • Incarnate (comics), a comic book mini-series
  • Incarnate (film)
  • University of the Incarnate Word, a private Catholic university
  • Incarnate, a book by Ramsey Campbell
  • Rise of Incarnates, a fighting video game by Bandai Namco Games

Usage examples of "incarnate".

But one makes its promise in the name of formal principles that it is quite incapable of incarnating and that are denied by the methods it employs.

He was fiery and moving as he exorted the Chosen, whom he called the Army of God, to be ever vigilant for signs as to the identity of the devil incarnate, the Antichrist.

The Incarnate God becomes a real child to be fondled and rocked, a child who is the loveliest of infants, whose birthday is the supreme type of all human birthdays, and may be kept with feasting and dance and song.

If we have a spirit world governed by order, with guides who care about us, how can maladaptive souls who exert negative energy upon incarnated beings be allowed to exist?

The gilded youth, incarnated in the image of a metropolitan toy-boy from the noughties, grins widely and slides down onto the bench next to Annette, whom he kisses with easy familiarity.

The gilded youth, incarnated in the image of a metropolitan toy-boy from the noughties, grins widely and embraces Manfred with a friendly bear hug.

The abbess of bSam-lding monastery and convent was claimed regularly to incarnate the goddess Vajravarahi and the Panchen Lama of Tashilhunpo was the Tathagata or Dhyani Buddha Amitabha.

The incarnate ideal of British philistinism is sure to have a career before him.

Now no matter: the theme is back for good, in the left hand of the quodlibet, incarnate in the material of this last, apologetic child whose parent in no way could have foreseen it.

Arkady padded around the gondola cheering her on, naked and dust-caked, the red man incarnate, singing songs and watching the radar screen, jamming down quick meals, planning their course such as it was.

Indefinite periods of celibacy notwithstanding, he was all man ruggedness incarnate.

Dicky shut the door again, as Selamlik Pasha shrank back among the cushions, cowardice incarnate.

Dostoevsky envisaged, however, was not one that he was able to incarnate artistically, no matter how much he might have wished to do so.

In learning to be still, our present-moment attentiveness deepens, becoming an act of incarnate faith, giving witness to ourselves and to the whole world that ultimately there is nowhere to go.

The incarnate Son of God is the common Saviour of all, not by a generic or specific community, such as is attributed to the nature separated from the individuals, but by a community of cause, whereby the incarnate Son of God is the universal cause of human salvation.