incarnate

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin incarnatus, past participle of incarnari (“be made flesh”), from in- + Latin caro (“flesh”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

incarnate (not comparable)

  1. (postpositive) Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.
    • Milton
      Here shalt thou sit incarnate.
    • Jortin
      He represents the emperor and his wife as two devils incarnate, sent into the world for the destruction of mankind.
  2. (obsolete) Flesh-colored, crimson.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)
Translations

Etymology 2

From the past participle stem of Latin incarnare (“make flesh”), from in- + caro (“flesh”).

Pronunciation

Verb

incarnate (third-person singular simple present incarnates, present participle incarnating, simple past and past participle incarnated)

  1. (transitive) To embody in flesh, invest with a bodily, especially a human, form.
    • 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 2:
      For one thing, we virtually decided that these morbidities and the hellish Himalayan Mi-Go were one and the same order of incarnated nightmare.
  2. (obsolete, intransitive) To incarn; to become covered with flesh, to heal over.
  3. (transitive) To make carnal, to reduce the spiritual nature of.
    • Milton
      This essence to incarnate and imbrute, / That to the height of deity aspired.
  4. (transitive) To put into or represent in a concrete form, as an idea.
Translations

Quotations

  • For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:incarnate.

Etymology 3

in- +‎ carnate

Adjective

incarnate (not comparable)

  1. Not in the flesh; spiritual.
    • Richardson
      I fear nothing […] that devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do.

Anagrams

Italian

Verb

incarnate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of incarnare
  2. second-person plural imperative of incarnare
  3. feminine plural of incarnato

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

incarnāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of incarnō
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