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personified
English
Verb
personified
- simple past tense and past participle of personify
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incarnate
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)
- (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.
- 1751-1753, John Jortin, Remarks on Ecclesiastical History
- (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)
- (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.
- 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, The Whisperer in Darkness, chapter 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.
- 1760, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Penguin 2003, p. 83)
- (transitive) To make carnal; to reduce the spiritual nature of.
- (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)
- Not in the flesh; spiritual.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa
- I fear nothing […] that devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa
Anagrams
- Nectarian, cane train, in a canter, nectarian
Italian
Verb
incarnate
- second-person plural present indicative of incarnare
- second-person plural imperative of incarnare
- feminine plural of incarnato
Anagrams
- antraceni, canterina, inarcante, incantare, incanterà
Latin
Verb
incarn?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of incarn?
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