Definition of Imbody

1. v. i. To become corporeal; to assume the qualities of a material body. See Embody.

Definition of Imbody

1. Verb. (archaic form of embody) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Imbody

1. to embody [v -BODIED, -BODYING, -BODIES] - See also: embody

Lexicographical Neighbors of Imbody

imbitterment
imbitterments
imbitters
imbizo
imbizos
imblaze
imblazed
imblazes
imblazing
imblazon
imblazoned
imblazoning
imblazons
imbodied
imbodies
imbody (current term)
imbodying
imboil
imboiled
imboiling
imbolden
imboldened
imboldening
imboldens
imbonities
imbonity
imborder
imbordered
imbordering
imborders

Literary usage of Imbody

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Bail Court (1872)
"... the patentee was at liberty to imbody in his specification ; leaving it to the jury to form their own conclusion from the evidence which they had heard. ..."

2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Courts of Common Law by Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Thomas Sergeant, Thomas M'Kean Pettit (1846)
"... that, in my opinion, the improvements suggested by each of those parties were such subordinate matters as the patentee was at liberty to imbody in his ..."

3. Report of Debates in the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal by Methodist Episcopal Church General Conference, Robert Athow West (1855)
"He would imbody his sentiments in the form of resolutions, which, however, he would not press upon the conference. ..."

4. The First Congregational Society of Jamaica Plain (the Third Parish Church by Ellen Lunt Frothingham Ernst (1909)
"... on the 21st day of November last past, and are therefore allowed liberty to imbody into a Church form agreeable to a vote then ..."

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