Definition of Incarnate

1. Verb. Make concrete and real.

Generic synonyms: Actualise, Actualize, Realise, Realize, Substantiate
Antonyms: Disincarnate
Derivative terms: Incarnation

2. Adjective. Possessing or existing in bodily form. "`corporate' is an archaic term"
Exact synonyms: Bodied, Corporal, Corporate, Embodied
Similar to: Corporeal, Material

3. Verb. Represent in bodily form. "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist"
Exact synonyms: Body Forth, Embody, Substantiate
Generic synonyms: Be
Derivative terms: Embodiment, Incarnation

4. Adjective. Invested with a bodily form especially of a human body. "A monarch...regarded as a god incarnate"
Similar to: Bodied

Definition of Incarnate

1. a. Not in the flesh; spiritual.

2. a. Invested with flesh; embodied in a human nature and form; united with, or having, a human body.

3. v. t. To clothe with flesh; to embody in flesh; to invest, as spirits, ideals, etc., with a human from or nature.

4. v. i. To form flesh; to granulate, as a wound.

Definition of Incarnate

1. Adjective. Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified. ¹

2. Adjective. (obsolete) Flesh-colored, crimson. ¹

3. Verb. (obsolete intransitive) To incarn; to become covered with flesh, to heal over. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To make carnal, to reduce the spiritual nature of. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To embody in flesh, invest with a bodily, especially a human, form. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive) To put into or represent in a concrete form, as an idea. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Incarnate

1. [v -NATED, -NATING, -NATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Incarnate

incarcerator
incardinate
incardinated
incardinates
incardinating
incardination
incardinations
incarial bone
incarn
incarnadine
incarnadined
incarnadines
incarnadining
incarnant
incarnatable
incarnate (current term)
incarnated
incarnates
incarnating
incarnation
incarnational
incarnations
incarnative
incarnatives
incarnification
incase
incased
incases

Literary usage of Incarnate

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

1. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson (1857)
"... incarnate, and becoming man to be crucified. But this very Creed was always this heresy was ... and therefore if the Son, the Father to be incarnate. ..."

2. The Works of President Edwards by Jonathan Edwards (1808)
"I would speak of Christ's becoming incarnate to capacitate himself for this purchase ... Christ became incarnate, or, which is the same thing, became man, ..."

3. A Manual of Church History by Albert Henry Newman (1906)
"THE PRE-incarnate WORD. John alone of all the evangelists lifts the veil of the infinite ... Matthew and Luke connect the incarnate Saviour with Abraham, ..."

4. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1882)
"THE incarnate SAVIOUR.*—The author aims to narrate in a popular form the chief events in the ... The incarnate Saviour. A life of Jesus Christ. By the Rev. ..."

5. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander, Joseph Torrey (1849)
"Thus, he says:l " All which is here called the word of God is a revelation of the incarnate and — so far as it concerns his divine essence — self-renouncing ..."

6. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1882)
"THE incarnate SAVIOUR.*—The author aims to narrate in a popular form the chief events in the ... The incarnate Saviour. A life of Jesus Christ. By the Rev. ..."

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