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Incarnate

adjective

Possessing or existing in bodily form. Synonyms: bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied. "An incarnate spirit" , "'corporate' is an archaic term"

Invested with a bodily form especially of a human body.

verb

(past & past part. incarnated; pres. part. incarnating)

Make concrete and real.

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

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"Incarnate" Quotes from Famous Books

... be the death of me; it is the devil incarnate who is talking. I never in all my life thought such words could come from a peasant-boy's mouth. For although all you have said is false and ungodly, still it is an unusual speech for one in your walk of life. Tell me this minute from whom you have ...

— Comedies • Ludvig Holberg

... even though it should turn out that intelligences can exist apart from the surface of planets and the usual material concomitants, it by no means follows that they must all at some period have been incarnate on the earth. The recognition of modes of existence differing greatly from our own, if it can ever be properly effected, will have an illuminating bearing on many fundamental problems of life and death; but this is not the place to attempt to discuss such a question, even if the time ...

— Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research • Michael Sage

... hackney which takes no heed of the strokes of the whip, nothing could move him now. The stifled groans of ruined players, as they passed out, their mute imprecations, their stupefied faces, found him impassive. He was the spirit of Play incarnate. If the young man had noticed this sorry Cerberus, perhaps he would have said, "There is only a pack of cards in ...

— The Magic Skin • Honore de Balzac

... in you, latent, sleeps the exquisite apotheosis of Art incarnate! Who can tell? You have youth, beauty, a mind! Yes. Who knows if, also, happily, genius ...

— The Crimson Tide • Robert W. Chambers

... Josiah. His eyes were "ever toward the Lord!" He studied the "ways" of the Lord, in order that he might incarnate them in national life and practice. Wise doings always begin in clear seeing. We should be far more efficient in practice if we were more diligently assiduous in vision. It is never a waste of time to "look unto Him." Looking is a most needful part of our daily ...

— My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year • John Henry Jowett

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