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Incarnate   /ɪnkˈɑrnət/  /ɪnkˈɑrnˌeɪt/   Listen
adjective
Incarnate  adj.  Not in the flesh; spiritual. (Obs.) "I fear nothing... that devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do."


Incarnate  adj.  
1.
Invested with flesh; embodied in a human nature and form; united with, or having, a human body. "Here shalt thou sit incarnate." "He represents the emperor and his wife as two devils incarnate, sent into the world for the destruction of mankind."
2.
Flesh-colored; rosy; red. (Obs.)


verb
Incarnate  v. t.  (past & past part. incarnated; pres. part. 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."


Incarnate  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."





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"Incarnate" Quotes from Famous Books



... retained in prison the proud and haughty demeanor which had formerly brought upon him so much censure at court. Lieutenant Bach's countenance also bore the imprint of incarnate pride. ...
— International Short Stories: French • Various
... le monde. The vulgarity is only equaled by the ingenuity and psychological adroitness of the method. The soul inspired with carnal dread of the doom impending over it, passed into almost physical contact with the incarnate Saviour. The designed effect was to induce a vivid and varied hypnotic dream of thirty days, from the influence of which a man should never wholly free himself. The end at which he arrived upon this path of ...
— Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 - The Catholic Reaction • John Addington Symonds
... world to the ends of the earth, has received from the Apostles and their disciples the faith: In one God, the Father Almighty, who made the heaven and the earth and the seas, and all that in them is; And in one Christ Jesus, the Son of God, who was incarnate for our salvation; And in the Holy Ghost, who through the prophets preached the dispensations and the advents, and the birth from the Virgin, and the passion, and the resurrection from the dead, and the bodily assumption into the heavens of the beloved Christ Jesus our Lord, and His ...
— A Source Book for Ancient Church History • Joseph Cullen Ayer, Jr., Ph.D.
... at Mrs. Gallilee, when she was first aware of her position in the Will, they might have seen the incarnate Devil self-revealed in a human face. They might have read, in her eyes and on her lips, a warning hardly less fearful than the unearthly writing on the wall, which told the Eastern Monarch of his coming death. "See this woman, and know what I can do with her, when ...
— Heart and Science - A Story of the Present Time • Wilkie Collins
... suffer like game in a batteau." Captain Cuffe wished to say battue; but, despising foreign languages, he generally made sad work with them whenever he did condescend to resort to their terms, however familiar. "This Raoul Yvard is a devil incarnate himself at this boarding work, and is said to have taken off the head of a master's mate of the Theseus with one clip of his sword when he retook that ship's prize in the affair of last ...
— The Wing-and-Wing - Le Feu-Follet • J. Fenimore Cooper


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