Em·bod·y v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embodied p. pr. & vb. n. Embodying.] To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise. [Written also imbody.]
Devils embodied and disembodied. --Sir W. Scott.
The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin. --South.
Em·bod·y, v. i. To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce. [Written also imbody.]
Firmly to embody against this court party. --Burke.
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Im·bod·y v. i. To become corporeal; to assume the qualities of a material body. See Embody.
The soul grows clotted by contagion,
Imbodies, and imbrutes. --Milton.
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