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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



... "Come on." They reached a large compound filled with people excitedly shouting and gesticulating. On one side of the yard lay a girl on a mud slab who seemed to be ill, and opposite was her mother, in appearance a fiend incarnate. It appeared that the girl, the daughter of an old chief, had taken a fainting fit, and the mother, who had once been a refugee in "Ma's" yard, was blaming people for ...
— Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary • W. P. Livingstone
... Mapp, she ran straight into the Disgrace of Tilling and her sex, the suffragette, post-impressionist artist (who painted from the nude, both male and female), the socialist and the Germanophil, all incarnate in one frame. In spite of these execrable antecedents, it was quite in vain that Miss Mapp had tried to poison the collective mind of Tilling against this Creature. If she hated anybody, and she undoubtedly did, she hated Irene Coles. The bitterest part of it all was that if Miss Coles was amused ...
— Miss Mapp • Edward Frederic Benson
... woman uttered a cry of joy, and spread her arms. The visitor, incarnate dignity, bent to the maternal caress with willing affection, yet with the tolerant air of good-nature that does not run to gush. The children gathered round her, and hung upon her, undeterred by the fact that she had no kisses or fondlings ...
— Sisters • Ada Cambridge
... their King Through ancient sin grown strong, Because they feared no reckoning Would set no bound to wrong; But now their hour is past, And we who bore it find Evil Incarnate held at ...
— The Years Between • Rudyard Kipling
... saints." However lowly their earthly state, the saints are a kingly race; and as our highest nobles deem it an honour to wait on the princes of the blood, accepting and soliciting offices at court, the angels are happy to serve such as, through their union with His incarnate Son, stand nearer the throne of God than themselves. Unseen by him, these celestials guard the good man's bed; watch his progress; wait on his person; guide his steps; and ward off many a blow the devil aims at his head and heart. They are the nurses of Christ's babes; the tutors and teachers of ...
— The Angels' Song • Thomas Guthrie


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