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| Pronunciation:  |   | [adj]in'kârnit, [v]in'kârneyt, in'kârnut
 
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- [adj]  invested with a bodily form especially of a human body; "a monarch...regarded as a god incarnate"  
 
- [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"  
 
- [v]  make concrete and real  
 
- [v]  represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist"  
 
 
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|   | Synonyms: |   | bodied, body forth, corporal, corporate, corporeal, embodied, embody, material, substantiate |  
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|   | Antonyms: |   | disincarnate |  |   |  
|   | See Also: |   | actualise, actualize, be, realise, realize, substantiate |       |  
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\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.
 
\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.
 
\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.
 
\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.
 
 
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