incarnate

• POS: Adjective, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: in=car=nate

CIDE DICTIONARY

incarnate, a. [Pref. in- not + carnate.].

 Not in the flesh; spiritual.  [1913 Webster]
"I fear nothing . . . that devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do."  [1913 Webster]

incarnate, a. [L. incarnatus, p. p. of incarnare to incarnate, pref. in- in + caro, carnis, flesh. See Carnal.].

•  Invested with flesh; embodied in a human nature and form; united with, or having, a human body.  [1913 Webster]

  "Here shalt thou sit incarnate."  [1913 Webster]

  "He represents the emperor and his wife as two devils incarnate, sent into the world for the destruction of mankind."  [1913 Webster]
•  Flesh-colored; rosy; red.  Holland.  [1913 Webster]

incarnate, v. t. 

 To clothe with flesh; to embody in flesh; to invest, as spirits, ideals, etc., with a human from or nature.  [1913 Webster]
"This essence to incarnate and imbrute,
That to the height of deity aspired."  [1913 Webster]

incarnate, v. i. 

 To form flesh; to granulate, as a wound.  [1913 Webster]
"My uncle Toby's wound was nearly well -- 't was just beginning to incarnate."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

incarnate, adj. & v.
--adj.
1 (of a person, spirit, quality, etc.) embodied in flesh, esp. in human form (is the devil incarnate).
2 represented in a recognizable or typical form (folly incarnate).
--v.tr.
1 embody in flesh.
2 put (an idea etc.) into concrete form; realize.
3 (of a person etc.) be the living embodiment of (a quality).

Etymology

ME f. eccl.L incarnare incarnat- make flesh (as IN-(2), L caro carnis flesh)

THESAURUS

incarnate

Christlike, Christly, adumbrate, affect, atavistic, betoken, bodily, body, body forth, born, brandish, breathe, bring forth, bring forward, bring into view, bring out, bring to notice, celestial, coeval, concretize, congenital, connatal, connate, connatural, constitutional, corporealize, corporify, dangle, demonstrate, develop, disclose, display, divine, divulge, dramatize, embodied, embody, empyrean, enact, entify, evidence, evince, exemplify, exhibit, expose to view, express, exteriorize, externalize, figure, flaunt, flourish, foreshadow, genetic, give sign, give token, godlike, godly, heavenly, hereditary, highlight, hypostatize, illuminate, illustrate, image, impersonate, in the blood, inborn, inbred, incarnated, incorporate, incorporated, indicate, indigenous, inherited, innate, instinctive, instinctual, intercessional, intercessive, lend substance to, made flesh, make clear, make plain, manifest, materialize, mean, mediative, mediatory, mirror, native, native to, natural, natural to, organic, parade, perform, personate, personify, physical, prefigure, present, pretypify, primal, produce, project, propitiative, propitiatory, realize, redemptive, reembody, reflect, reify, reincarnate, represent, reveal, roll out, salvational, self-existent, set forth, shadow, shadow forth, show, show forth, solidify, spotlight, substantialize, substantiate, substantify, superhuman, supernatural, temperamental, token, transcendent, transmigrate, trot out, unfold, wave

ROGET THESAURUS

incarnate

Intrinsicality

N intrinsicality, inbeing, inherence, inhesion, subjectiveness, ego, egohood, essence, noumenon, essentialness, essential part, quintessence, incarnation, quiddity, gist, pith, marrow, core, sap, lifeblood, backbone, heart, soul, important part, principle, nature, constitution, character, type, quality, crasis, diathesis, habit, temper, temperament, spirit, humor, grain, disposition, endowment, capacity, capability, moods, declensions, features, aspects, peculiarities, idiosyncrasy, oddity, idiocrasy, diagnostics, derived from within, subjective, intrinsic, intrinsical, fundamental, normal, implanted, inherent, essential, natural, innate, inborn, inbred, ingrained, inwrought, coeval with birth, genetous, haematobious, syngenic, radical, incarnate, thoroughbred, hereditary, inherited, immanent, congenital, congenite, connate, running in the blood, ingenerate, ingenite, indigenous, in the grain, bred in the bone, instinctive, inward, internal, to the manner born, virtual, characteristic, invariable, incurable, incorrigible, ineradicable, fixed, intrinsically, at bottom, in the main, in effect, practically, virtually, substantially, au fond, fairly, character is higher than intellect, come give us a taste of your quality, magnos homines virtute metimur non fortuna, non numero haec judicantur sed pondere, vital spark of heavenly flame.

Vice

N vice, evil-doing, evil courses, wrongdoing, wickedness, viciousness, iniquity, peccability, demerit, sin, Adam, old Adam, offending Adam, immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals, enphagy, dophagy, exophagy, want of principle, want of ballast, obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity, depravity, pollution, hardness of heart, brutality, corruption, knavery, profligacy, flagrancy, atrocity, cannibalism, lesbianism, Sadism, infirmity, weakness, weakness of the flesh, frailty, imperfection, error, weak side, foible, failing, failure, crying sin, besetting sin, defect, deficiency, cloven foot, lowest dregs of vice, sink of iniquity, Alsatian den, gusto picaresco, fault, crime, criminality, sinner, brothel, gambling house, joint, opium den, shooting gallery, crack house, vicious, sinful, sinning, wicked, iniquitous, immoral, unrighteous, wrong, criminal, naughty, incorrect, unduteous, undutiful, unprincipled, lawless, disorderly, contra bonos mores, indecorous, unseemly, improper, dissolute, profligate, scampish, unworthy, worthless, desertless, disgraceful, recreant, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, discreditable, disreputable, Sadistic, base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous, flagrant, flagitious, atrocious, incarnate, accursed, Mephistophelian, satanic, diabolic, hellish, infernal, stygian, fiendlike, hell-born, demoniacal, devilish, fiendish, miscreated, misbegotten, demoralized, corrupt, depraved, evil-minded, evil-disposed, ill-conditioned, malevolent, heartless, graceless, shameless, virtueless, abandoned, lost to virtue, unconscionable, sunk in iniquity, lost in iniquity, steeped in iniquity, incorrigible, irreclaimable, obdurate, reprobate, past praying for, culpable, reprehensible, unjustifiable, indefensible, inexcusable, inexpiable, unpardonable, irremissible, weak, frail, lax, infirm, imperfect, indiscrete, demoralizing, degrading, wrong, sinfully, without excuse, Int, O tempora!, O mores!, alitur vitium vivitque tegendo, genus est mortis male vivere, mala mens malus animus, nemo repente fuit turpissimus, the trail of the serpent is over them all, to sanction vice and hunt decorum down.