incarnate
IPA: ɪnkˈɑrnʌt
verb
- (transitive) To embody in flesh, invest with a bodily, especially a human, form.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To incarn; to become covered with flesh, to heal over.
- (transitive) To make carnal; to reduce the spiritual nature of.
- (transitive, figurative) To put into or represent in a concrete form, as an idea.
adjective
- (traditionally postpositive, now frequently prepositive) Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.
- (obsolete) Flesh-colored, crimson.
- Not in the flesh; spiritual.
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Examples of "incarnate" in Sentences
- Bill used the word incarnate when describing Obama.
- Jesus is the word incarnate … Hence the word is Christ
- Notice the Latin root incarnare which we find in the English word incarnate.
- He argues that if the three Divine Persons form but one God all three have become incarnate, which is inadmissible.
- Although we might be tempted to see Spencer as evil incarnate, is there anything that might help us to understand him, or, at least to some extent, to empathize with him?
- So I brought out the dirhams and sat down to await his return; but he stayed away from me a third month, and I said, “Verily this young man is liberality in incarnate form.”
- That the idea of incarnate deity should be found in pre-Christian Hindu thought is not so remarkable when we consider that it answers to the yearning of the human heart for union with God.
- First, some of the schoolmen have found no other respect wherefore the manhood of Christ can be said to be adored, (728) except this, that the flesh of Christ is adored by him who adores the word incarnate, even as the king’s clothes are adored by him who adores the king.
- In this they were standing upon the high ground taken by Richard Baxter, an authority among the Puritans, who, denouncing the use of the slaves as beasts for their mere commodity, said, that their masters who "betray or destroy or neglect their souls are fitter to be called incarnate devils than Christians though they be no Christian whom they so abuse."
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