What does incarnate mean?
Definitions for incarnate
ɪnˈkɑr nɪt, -neɪt; -neɪtin·car·nate
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Princeton's WordNet
bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied, incarnateadjective
possessing or existing in bodily form
"what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term"
incarnateverb
invested with a bodily form especially of a human body
"a monarch...regarded as a god incarnate"
incarnateverb
make concrete and real
incarnate, body forth, embody, substantiateverb
represent in bodily form
"He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist"
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Incarnateparticipial adj.
Etymology: incarnat, Fr. from the verb.
Undoubtedly even the nature of God itself, in the person of the son, is incarnate, and hath taken to itself flesh. Richard Hooker.
They say he cried out of women.
—— Yes, that he did, and said they were devils incarnate. William Shakespeare.A most wise sufficient means of redemption and salvation, by the satisfactory death and obedience of the incarnate son of God, Jesus Christ, God blessed for ever. Robert Sanderson.
Here shalt thou sit incarnate, here shalt reign
Both God and man. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. iii.But he's possest,
Incarnate with a thousand imps. Jonathan Swift.To Incarnateverb
Etymology: incarner, Fr. incarno, Latin.
I, who erst contended
With gods to sit the highest, am now constrain'd
Into a beast, and mix with bestial slime,
This essence to incarnate and imbrute. John Milton.
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incarnate
Incarnate refers to existing in bodily form, often relating to a divine being or spiritual concept believed to be manifest or embodied in human form. It can also refer to representing or expressing something in a concrete or tangible form.
Webster Dictionary
Incarnateadjective
not in the flesh; spiritual
Incarnateadjective
invested with flesh; embodied in a human nature and form; united with, or having, a human body
Incarnateadjective
flesh-colored; rosy; red
Incarnateverb
to clothe with flesh; to embody in flesh; to invest, as spirits, ideals, etc., with a human from or nature
Incarnateverb
to form flesh; to granulate, as a wound
Etymology: [Pref. in- not + carnate.]
Wikidata
Incarnate
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" and "Inside-Looking Out". The track "Streetside" is a video clip.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Incarnate
in-kär′nāt, v.t. to embody in flesh.—v.i. to form flesh, heal.—adj. invested with flesh.—n. Incarnā′tion, act of embodying in flesh: (theol.) the union of the divine nature with the human in the divine person of Christ: an incarnate form: manifestation, visible embodiment: (surg.) the process of healing, or forming new flesh. [Low. L. incarnāre, -ātum—L. in, in, caro, carnis, flesh.]
Editors Contribution
incarnate
To be or exist in the form of a human being or animal.
Animals and human beings incarnate with a soul on planet earth.
Submitted by MaryC on February 24, 2020
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of incarnate in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of incarnate in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of incarnate in a Sentence
What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?
My advisors tell me I've been poisoned and that I do it to myself, but their tongues speak only half-truths, for I was born to suffer, and that is truth incarnate.
Terry Goodkind, "Blood of the Fold":
But if used for retribution, magic is vengeance incarnate.
The ideal type of the Communist is a man in whom all individual, emotional, and unconscious elements have been reduced to a minimum and subjected to the control of an iron will, informed by a supple intellect. That intellect is totally at the service of a single and compelling idea, made incarnate in the Communist Party: the concept of History as an inexorable god whose ways are revealed ‘scientifically’ through the doctrine and method of Marxism-Leninism.
We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive - and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.
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- verkorpernGerman
- ενσαρκωμένος, ενσαρκώνω, προσωποποιώGreek
- enkarniĝoEsperanto
- lihallistunut, ruumiillistunut, maallistaa, havainnollistaa, ruumiillistaaFinnish
- अवतार लेनाHindi
- inkarnerteNorwegian
- encarnarPortuguese
- întrupatRomanian
- осуществи́ть, осуществля́ть, воплоти́ть, олицетвори́ть, воплощённый, воплоща́ть, во плоти́, олицетворя́тьRussian
- forkroppsligadSwedish
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