different between physical vs incarnate

English

Alternative forms

• physickal (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin physic?lis, from Latin physica (“study of nature”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (phusik?), feminine singular of ??????? (phusikós).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?f?z?k?l/

Adjective

physical (comparative more physical, superlative most physical)

1. Of medicine.
   1. (obsolete) Pertaining to the field of medicine; medical. [15th–19th c.]
   2. (obsolete) That practises medicine; pertaining to doctors, physicianly. [18th c.]
      • 1788, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary, Oxford 2009, p. 19:

        Her father was thrown from his horse, when his blood was in a very inflammatory state, and the bruises were very dangerous; his recovery was not expected by the physical tribe.

   3. (obsolete) Medicinal; good for the health, curative, therapeutic. [16th–19th c.]
      • 1579, Thomas North, translating Pliny, Parallel Lives:

        Phisicall [transl. ??????????? (pharmak?deis)] herbes, as Helleborum, Lingewort, or Beares foote.
2. Of matter or nature.
   1. Pertaining to the world as understood through the senses rather than the mind; tangible, concrete; having to do with the material world. [from 16th c.]

      • Labour, then, in the physical world, is […] employed in putting objects in motion.

   2. In accordance with the laws of nature; now specifically, pertaining to physics. [from 16th c.]

   3. Denoting a map showing natural features of the landscape (compare political). [from 18th c.]
3. Of the human body.
   1. Having to do with the body as opposed to the mind; corporeal, bodily. [from 18th c.]
   2. Sexual, carnal. [from 18th c.]
   3. Involving bodily force or contact; vigorous, aggressive. [from 20th c.]

Antonyms

• mental, psychological; having to do with the mind viewed as distinct from body.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

physical (plural physicals)

1. Physical examination.

   Synonyms: checkup, check-up

2. (parapsychology) A physical manifestation of psychic origin, as through ectoplasmic solidification.

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.

   (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?