Incarnate

Pronunciation

• RP IPA: /ɪnˈkɑːneɪt/, /ɪnˈkɑːnÉ™t/

From Ecclesiastical Latin incarnatus, past participle of incarnari ("be made flesh"), from in- + caro ("flesh").

Full definition of incarnate

Adjective

1. Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.
• MiltonHere shalt thou sit incarnate.
• JortinHe represents the emperor and his wife as two devils incarnate, sent into the world for the destruction of mankind.
2. (obsolete) Flesh-colored, crimson.

Pronunciation

• RP IPA: /ˈɪnkɑːneɪt/, /ɪnˈkɑːneɪt/

From the past participle stem of Latin incarnare ("make flesh"), from in- + caro ("flesh").

Verb

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To incarn; to become covered with flesh, to heal over.
2. (transitive) To make carnal, to reduce the spiritual nature of.
3. (transitive) To embody in flesh, invest with a bodily, especially a human, form.
• MiltonThis essence to incarnate and imbrute,
  That to the height of deity aspired.
4. (transitive) To put into or represent in a concrete form, as an idea.

Related terms

• carnal
• incarnation
• reincarnate
• reincarnation

- + carnate

Adjective

1. Not in the flesh; spiritual.
• RichardsonI fear nothing ... that devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do.

Anagrams

• in a canter