incarnate.
Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.
Meaning & usage
Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.
Flesh-colored; crimson.
Where this word comes from
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.
To embody in flesh; to invest with a bodily, especially a human, form.
To gain full existence (bodily or otherwise).
To incarn; to become covered with flesh; to heal over.
To make carnal; to reduce the spiritual nature of.
To put into or represent in a concrete form, as an idea.
Where this word comes from
First attested in 1533; borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin incarnātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
Not in the flesh; spiritual.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English carnate English incarnate From in- + carnate.
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