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Incarnate \In*car"nate\, a. [L. incarnatus, p. p. of incarnare to incarnate, pref. in- in + caro, carnis, flesh. See Carnal.]

1. Invested with flesh; embodied in a human nature and form; united with, or having, a human body.

Here shalt thou sit incarnate. --Milton.

He represents the emperor and his wife as two devils incarnate, sent into the world for the destruction of mankind. --Jortin.

2. Flesh-colored; rosy; red. [Obs.]

--Holland.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Incarnate \In*car"nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Incarnated; p. pr. & vb. n. 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. --Milton.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Incarnate \In*car"nate\, a. [Pref. in- not + carnate.]

Not in the flesh; spiritual. [Obs.]

I fear nothing . . . that devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do. --Richardson.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Incarnate \In*car"nate\, 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. --Sterne.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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