different between breathing vs incarnate

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?i?ð??/

Verb

breathing

1. present participle of breathe

Noun

breathing (countable and uncountable, plural breathings)

1. The act of respiration; a single instance of this.
2. A diacritical mark indicating aspiration or lack thereof.
3. (archaic) Time to recover one's breath; hence, a delay, a spell of time.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 2 Scene 1

     DON PEDRO. Count Claudio, when mean you to go to church?

     CLAUDIO. To-morrow, my lord. Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.

     LEONATO. Not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence a just seven-night; and a time too brief too, to have all things answer my mind.

     DON PEDRO. Come, you shake the head at so long a breathing; but, I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall not go dully by us.

4. Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration.

   the breathings of the Holy Spirit

5. Aspiration; secret prayer.
   • May 24, 1683, John Tillotson, sermon preached at the funeral of Reverend Benjamin Whichcot

     earnest desires and breathings after that blessed state

Translations

English

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?k??ne?t/, /?n?k??n?t/

Adjective

incarnate (not comparable)

1. (postpositive) Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.
   • 1751-1753, John Jortin, Remarks on Ecclesiastical History

     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.

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Translations

Etymology 2

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??nk??ne?t/, /?n?k??ne?t/

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.
   • 1760, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin 2003, p. 83)

     My uncle Toby’s wound was near well, and as soon as the surgeon recovered his surprize, and could get leave to say as much—he told him, 'twas just beginning to incarnate.

3. (transitive) To make carnal; to reduce the spiritual nature of.
4. (transitive, figuratively) To put into or represent in a concrete form, as an idea.

Translations

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:incarnate.

Related terms

• carnal
• incarnation
• reincarnate
• reincarnation

Etymology 3

in- +? carnate

Adjective

incarnate (not comparable)

1. Not in the flesh; spiritual.
   • 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa

     I fear nothing […] that devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do.

Anagrams

• Nectarian, cane train, in a canter, nectarian

Italian

Verb

incarnate

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

Anagrams

• antraceni, canterina, inarcante, incantare, incanterà

Latin

Verb

incarn?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of incarn?