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incarnate Definition

in·car·nate (in kärnit, -nāt′; for v., -nāt′)

adjective

  1. endowed with a body, esp. a human body; in bodily form
  2. being a living example of; personified evil incarnate
    1. flesh-colored; pink
    2. red; rosy

Etymology: ME < LL(Ec) incarnatus, pp. of incarnari, to be made flesh < L in-, in + caro (gen. carnis), flesh: see carnal

transitive verb -·nat′ed, -·nat′·ing

  1. to provide with flesh or a body; embody
  2. to give actual form to; make real
  3. to be the type or embodiment of to incarnate the frontier spirit

incarnate Synonyms

incarnate

modif.

embodied, personified, tangible; see physical 1, real 2.

incarnate Usage Examples

Object

  • soul: Living life in the fog is not the intention of the incarnating soul.
  • spirit: At any rate they incarnate the very spirit of the songs he sings.
  • gospel: Each generation and culture, however, has different temptations in its struggle to incarnate the gospel.

Preposition: on

  • earth: Hindus also believe that God becomes incarnated on earth to restore goodness whenever there is an increase of evil.

Preposition: as

    Modifies a noun

    • deity: He has a name, the Word of God, which expresses His incarnate deity.
    • god: He gives no impression in the least that he is giving a message already preached by the incarnate god.
    • word: They must be shaped by Christ, the incarnate word of God.
    • life: It is this law which turns the wheel of life that determines the fortunes of our incarnate lives in the physical world.

    Modifying Another Word

    • not: God does not incarnate himself and there is no one book which has been directly revealed by God or is wholly infallible.
    • now: Many reading this will be Star Seeds whose purpose in incarnating now is to be a light for others.
    • here: Many of his people had chosen to come to Earth by incarnating here.

    Used with adjective complement

    • become: God has become incarnate in the person of his Son.

    Preposition: in

    • flesh: The Bible says Christ is the living God incarnate in flesh.
    • person: God has become incarnate in the person of his Son.
    • form: Suppose then that He incarnated in the form of rabbi Rosen.
    • body: For your human mind was basically a timeless spirit, only temporarily incarnated in a human body here below.
    • culture: We have to be a church that's incarnated in a culture, because there's no such thing as a heavenly culture.
incarnate Quotes

Billige Gnade ist Gnade ohne Nachfolge, Gnade ohne Kreuz, Gnade ohne den lebendigen, menschgewordenen Jesus Christus. Cheap graceisgracewithout discipleship, gracewithout the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.

—Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

The world has not to be put in order: the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.

—Miller, Henry Valentine