different between existent vs incarnate

English

Etymology

From Latin existens, from existere.

Adjective

existent (not comparable)

1. existing; having life or being, current; occurring now

Synonyms

• existing, extant; See also Thesaurus:existent

Antonyms

• nonexistent

Related terms

• exist
• existence
• existential

Translations

Noun

existent (plural existents)

1. (archaic) a being or entity that exists independently

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin exist?ns.

Adjective

existent (masculine and feminine plural existents)

1. existent, existing

   Antonym: inexistent

Related terms

• existència
• existir

Further reading

• “existent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “existent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “existent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “existent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Verb

existent

1. third-person plural present indicative of exister
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of exister

Latin

Verb

existent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of exist?

Romanian

Etymology

From French existant

Adjective

existent m or n (feminine singular existent?, masculine plural existen?i, feminine and neuter plural existente)

1. existent

Declension

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.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)

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?