Definition of Embody

1. Verb. Represent in bodily form. "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist"

Exact synonyms: Body Forth, Incarnate, Substantiate
Generic synonyms: Be
Derivative terms: Embodiment, Incarnation

2. Verb. Represent, as of a character on stage. "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet"
Exact synonyms: Be, Personify
Generic synonyms: Represent, Stand For, Symbolise, Symbolize, Typify
Specialized synonyms: Body, Personify, Exemplify, Represent
Derivative terms: Persona, Persona

3. Verb. Represent or express something abstract in tangible form. "This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period"
Generic synonyms: Represent
Derivative terms: Embodiment

Definition of Embody

1. v. t. To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise.

2. v. i. To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce.

Definition of Embody

1. Verb. (transitive) To represent in a physical form; to incarnate or personify ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To include or represent, especially as part of a cohesive whole ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Embody

1. to provide with a body [v -BODIED, -BODYING, -BODIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Embody

emblems
emblems and insignia
emblic
emblics
embloom
embloomed
emblooms
emblossom
embodiable
embodied
embodier
embodiers
embodies
embodiment
embodiments
embody (current term)
embodying
embog
embogged
embogging
embogs
embogue
embogued
embogues
emboguing
emboil
emboiled
emboiling
emboils
emboitement

Literary usage of Embody

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Annals of Tennessee to the End of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Its by James Gettys McGready Ramsey (1853)
"I Rutherford, of North-Carolina, issued a requisition for the militia of that state to embody for the defence of their sister state. ..."

2. Argumentation and Debating by William Trufant Foster (1917)
"THE PROPOSITION SHOULD embody ONE CENTRAL IDEA The proposition should embody one central idea; for unless all the parts of a subject for debate can be ..."

3. History of North Carolina by Samuel A'Court Ashe (1908)
"The Tories embody.—Moore at Rockfish.—McDonald marches.—Moore's Creek. ... Doubtless his conferences there strengthened his purpose to embody the Loyalists ..."

4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"As nothing, however, in this imperfect state is without its alloy, the same peculiarity of mind which enabled her to comprehend and embody in verse the most ..."

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