incarnate

Pronunciation: /ɪnˈkɑːɹ.nɪt/

The English word “incarnate” has 8 meanings listed here.

adjective

Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.
Flesh-colored; crimson.
Not in the flesh; spiritual.

verb

To embody in flesh; to invest with a bodily, especially a human, form.
To gain full existence (bodily or otherwise).
To incarn; to become covered with flesh; to heal over.
To make carnal; to reduce the spiritual nature of.
To put into or represent in a concrete form, as an idea.

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…

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