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Definition of Incarnate
1. Adjective. Possessing or existing in bodily form. "`corporate' is an archaic term"
2. Verb. Make concrete and real.
Antonyms: Disincarnate
Derivative terms: Incarnation
3. Adjective. Invested with a bodily form especially of a human body. "A monarch...regarded as a god incarnate"
4. Verb. Represent in bodily form. "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist"
Generic synonyms: Be
Derivative terms: Embodiment, Incarnation
Definition of Incarnate
1. a. Not in the flesh; spiritual.
2. a. Invested with flesh; embodied in a human nature and form; united with, or having, a human body.
3. v. t. To clothe with flesh; to embody in flesh; to invest, as spirits, ideals, etc., with a human from or nature.
4. v. i. To form flesh; to granulate, as a wound.
Definition of Incarnate
1. Adjective. Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified. ¹
2. Adjective. (obsolete) Flesh-colored, crimson. ¹
3. Verb. (obsolete intransitive) To incarn; to become covered with flesh, to heal over. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To make carnal, to reduce the spiritual nature of. ¹
5. Verb. (transitive) To embody in flesh, invest with a bodily, especially a human, form. ¹
6. Verb. (transitive) To put into or represent in a concrete form, as an idea. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Incarnate
1. [v -NATED, -NATING, -NATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incarnate
Literary usage of Incarnate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson (1857)
"... incarnate, and becoming man to be crucified. But this very Creed was always
this heresy was ... and therefore if the Son, the Father to be incarnate. ..."
2. The Works of President Edwards by Jonathan Edwards (1808)
"I would speak of Christ's becoming incarnate to capacitate himself for this purchase
... Christ became incarnate, or, which is the same thing, became man, ..."
3. A Manual of Church History by Albert Henry Newman (1906)
"THE PRE-incarnate WORD. John alone of all the evangelists lifts the veil of the
infinite ... Matthew and Luke connect the incarnate Saviour with Abraham, ..."
4. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1882)
"THE incarnate SAVIOUR.*—The author aims to narrate in a popular form the chief
events in the ... The incarnate Saviour. A life of Jesus Christ. By the Rev. ..."
5. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander, Joseph Torrey (1849)
"Thus, he says:l " All which is here called the word of God is a revelation of
the incarnate and — so far as it concerns his divine essence — self-renouncing ..."
6. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1882)
"THE incarnate SAVIOUR.*—The author aims to narrate in a popular form the chief
events in the ... The incarnate Saviour. A life of Jesus Christ. By the Rev. ..."
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