in·car·nate /ɪnˈkɑrˌnet, ˈɪnˌ/
(vt.)體現,使具體化,使實體化(a.)化身的,實體化的,肉色的,深紅色的
In·car·nate a. Not in the flesh; spiritual. [Obs.]
I fear nothing . . . that devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do. --Richardson.
In·car·nate, a.
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.]
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.
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.
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incarnate
adj 1: possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed corporal
melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an
incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term"
[syn: bodied, corporal, corporate, embodied]
2: invested with a bodily form especially of a human body; "a
monarch...regarded as a god incarnate"
v 1: make concrete and real [ant: disincarnate]
2: represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil
wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the
feelings of the artist" [syn: body forth, embody, substantiate]