incarnate

Meanings

1. Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.
2. Flesh-colored; crimson.

1. To embody in flesh; to invest with a bodily, especially a human, form.
2. To gain full existence (bodily or otherwise).
3. To incarn; to become covered with flesh; to heal over.
4. To make carnal; to reduce the spiritual nature of.
5. To put into or represent in a concrete form, as an idea.

1. Not in the flesh; spiritual.

Etymology

First 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.