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Definition of Embody

1. Verb. Represent in bodily form. "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist"

2. Verb. Represent, as of a character on stage. "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet"

3. Verb. Represent or express something abstract in tangible form. "This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period"

Definition of Embody

1. v. t. To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise.

2. v. i. To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce.

Definition of Embody

1. Verb. (transitive) To represent in a physical form; to incarnate or personify ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To include or represent, especially as part of a cohesive whole ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Embody

1. to provide with a body [v -BODIED, -BODYING, -BODIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Embody

emblems emblems and insignia emblic emblics embloom embloomed emblooms emblossom embodiable embodied

embodier embodiers embodies embodiment embodiments embody (current term) embodying embog embogged embogging

embogs embogue embogued embogues emboguing emboil emboiled emboiling emboils emboitement

Literary usage of Embody

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

1. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"I Rutherford, of North-Carolina, issued a requisition for the militia of that state to embody for the defence of their sister state. ..."

2. Argumentation and Debating by William Trufant Foster (1917)
"THE PROPOSITION SHOULD embody ONE CENTRAL IDEA The proposition should embody one central idea; for unless all the parts of a subject for debate can be ..."

3. History of North Carolina by Samuel A'Court Ashe (1908)
"The Tories embody.—Moore at Rockfish.—McDonald marches.—Moore's Creek. ... Doubtless his conferences there strengthened his purpose to embody the Loyalists ..."

4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"As nothing, however, in this imperfect state is without its alloy, the same peculiarity of mind which enabled her to comprehend and embody in verse the most ..."

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