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incarnate

adj
/ɪnˈkɑːɹ.nɪt/US/ɪnˈkɑːneɪt/UK/ˈɪnkɑːneɪt/UK

Etymology

First attested in 1395, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English incarnat(e) (“(of God or Christ) embodied in human form or flesh, incarnate; provided with new tissues, healed; (with devel, in curses) bloody”), borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin incarnātus, perfect passive participle of incarnor (“to be made flesh, become incarnate”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), from in- + Latin carō (“flesh”, carn- in its oblique stem) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, in- + Latin carn- + -ate.

  1. derived from carō
  2. derived from incarnātus
  3. inherited from incarnat — “(of God or Christ) embodied in human form or flesh, incarnate; provided with new tissues, healed; (with devel, in curses) bloody”
  4. inherited from incarnat

Definitions

  1. Embodied in flesh

    Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.

    • Here shalt thou sit incarnate.
    • 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. Flesh-colored

    Flesh-colored; crimson.

    • Yards of Turkey silk incarnate.

  3. To embody in flesh

    To embody in flesh; to invest with a bodily, especially a human, form.

    • For one thing, we virtually decided that these morbidities and the hellish Himalayan Mi-Go were one and the same order of incarnated nightmare.
    • Not all of the soul can incarnate into a body; the part which is left above is the psyche.
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. To gain full existence (bodily or otherwise).

      • SCP-3125 incarnated the following winter.

    2. To incarn

      To incarn; to become covered with flesh; to heal over.

      • 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. To make carnal

      To make carnal; to reduce the spiritual nature of.

      • This essence to incarnate and imbrute, / That to the height of deity aspired.

    4. To put into or represent in a concrete form, as an idea.

    5. Not in the flesh

      Not in the flesh; spiritual.

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

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Derived

disincarnate, unincarnate, incarnatable, nonincarnated, unincarnated

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at incarnate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at incarnate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at incarnate

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA