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Embody

verb

(past & past part. embodied; pres. part. embodying) (Written also imbody)

Represent in bodily form. Synonyms: body forth, incarnate, substantiate. "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist"

Represent, as of a character on stage. Synonyms: be, personify.

Represent or express something abstract in tangible form.

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... which he could paint it all, and this is what he hoped, from day to day, to find. As I grew tired of waiting for it, I set about trying to find the longed-for frame for him myself. He evidently wished to evolve an epic poem on a large scale, in which to embody the views he had acquired. As he had once alluded to Dante's luck in finding a subject like the pilgrimage through hell and purgatory into paradise, it occurred to me to suggest, for the desired frame, the Brahman myth of Metempsychosis, which in Plato's version comes within reach ...

— My Life, Volume II • Richard Wagner

... the shorter Latin classics few would more fully repay close and careful study of both language and thought than these charming colloquies on Old Age and Friendship. While almost faultless in expression, they embody in a remarkable degree that universal element which characterizes the literary masterpiece, and makes it the valued possession not merely of an age or a nation, ...

— Cato Maior de Senectute • Marcus Tullius Cicero

... would not harmonize with other lines in the building. The good architect accepts the beautification of a useful building as a challenge and does not sacrifice utility because a useful structure does not embody some feature of Gothic or Old English parish church architecture. This tendency ...

— Church Cooperation in Community Life • Paul L. Vogt

... chiefly in the eastern provinces, upon certain matters in dispute, and to be of authority so far as that Church may be considered a representative of the mind of the Apostles; next, they profess to embody in themselves positive decisions and injunctions of the Apostles, though without clearly discriminating how much is thus directly Apostolical, and how much not. I will here attempt to state some of the considerations which show both ...

— Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) • John Henry Newman

... remedied, the aspirations that cannot be realized, of man's own nature. But in this sadness, this consciousness of the limitation of man, this sense of an open secret which he cannot penetrate, lies the essence of all religion; and the attempt to embody it in the forms furnished by the intellect is the ...

— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley

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