incarnate
Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personifiedEmbodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.
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Meaning
3 senses(not comparable)Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.
fleischgeworden, inkarnat
во плоти́vo plotí, воплощённыйvoploščónnyj
invested with a bodily form especially of a human body
(not comparable, obsolete)Flesh-colored; crimson.
(not comparable, rare)Not in the flesh; spiritual.
Origin
First attested in 1395, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English incarnat(e) (“(ofFirst 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.
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