incarnate
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: First attested in 1395, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English incarnat(e) (“(of God or Christ) embodied in human form or flesh, incarnate; provided with new tissues, healed; (with devel, in curses) bloody”), borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin incarnātus, perfect passive participle of incarnor (“to be made flesh, become incarnate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from in- + Latin carō (“flesh”, carn- in its oblique stem) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, in- + Latin carn- + -ate.
Affixes: -ate
Inflected forms:
form: incarnates
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: incarnating
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: incarnated
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: incarnated
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Here shalt thou sit incarnate.
1751-1753, John Jortin, Remarks on Ecclesiastical History
He […] represents the emperor and his wife as two devils incarnate, sent into the world for the destruction of mankind.
gloss: Flesh-colored; crimson.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: Yards of Turkey silk incarnate.
gloss: To embody in flesh; to invest with a bodily, especially a human, form.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: For one thing, we virtually decided that these morbidities and the hellish Himalayan Mi-Go were one and the same order of incarnated nightmare.
Not all of the soul can incarnate into a body; the part which is left above is the psyche.
gloss: To gain full existence (bodily or otherwise).
pos: verb
tags: broadly
intransitive
examples: SCP-3125 incarnated the following winter.
gloss: To incarn; to become covered with flesh; to heal over.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: My uncle Toby’s wound was near well, and as soon as the surgeon recovered his surprize, and could get leave to say as much—he told him, 'twas just beginning to incarnate.
gloss: To make carnal; to reduce the spiritual nature of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: This essence to incarnate and imbrute, / That to the height of deity aspired.
gloss: To put into or represent in a concrete form, as an idea.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: Truly, that special world presented itself to me as the arena of my perceptual activity and therefore as the world of my first reading. The texts, the words, the letters of that context were incarnated in a series of things, objects, and signs.
Responding to this in confusion, perhaps you construct an Idea, a structure, a multiplicity, a system of multiple, nonlocalisable ideal connections which is then incarnated. It is incarnated in real (not ideal) relations and actual (physical) terms, each of which exists in relation to each other, reciprocally determining each other.
The two are fused together in a single act and single product, precisely as an idea incarnated in an image, i.e., the expression of an embodied-spirit, grasped all at once as a meaning shining through a manifold of images and held as one in the unity of human consciousness which is simultaneously intellectual and sensible.
Related words: carnal
excarnate
excarnation
incarnation
reincarnate
reincarnation
Derived words: disincarnate
unincarnate
incarnatable
nonincarnated
unincarnated
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