Definition of "incarnate" in inglés

adjective

1. (traditionally postpositive, now frequently prepositive) Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.

   • 1751-1753, John Jortin, Remarks on Ecclesiastical History He […] represents the emperor and his wife as two devils incarnate, sent into the world for the destruction of mankind.

2. (obsolete) Flesh-colored; crimson.

verb

1. (intransitive) To embody in flesh; to invest with a bodily, especially a human, form.

2. (intransitive, by extension) To gain full existence (bodily or otherwise).

3. (obsolete, intransitive) To incarn; to become covered with flesh; to heal over.

4. (transitive) To make carnal; to reduce the spiritual nature of.

5. (transitive, figurative) To put into or represent in a concrete form, as an idea.

adjective

1. (rare) Not in the flesh; spiritual.