Origin: Latin
suffix -ate
Incarnate has 7 different meanings across 2 categories:
Verb
· Adjective
Verb
2
represent in bodily form
"He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"
"The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist"
3
To embody in flesh, invest with a bodily, especially a human, form.
Adjective
1
possessing or existing in bodily form
"what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind"
"an incarnate spirit"
"`corporate' is an archaic term"
2
invested with a bodily form especially of a human body
"a monarch...regarded as a god incarnate"
3
Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.
4
Not in the flesh; spiritual.
Example Sentences
"He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"
verb
"The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist"
verb
"what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind"
adjective
"an incarnate spirit"
adjective
"`corporate' is an archaic term"
adjective
"a monarch...regarded as a god incarnate"
adjective
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