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to incarnate

to incarnate

1 7.3
Take a real human or animal body
  • verb
  • /ɪnˈkɑrnɪt/
  • Formal
translation icon : encarnarse en
  • We call it the Ascension process, because we have ascended many times before and are many masters incarnated right now in the form of star.
  • incarnate God

And Anthony would have been so incredibly proud to see me incarnated as a mother.

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Examples

  • And Anthony would have been so incredibly proud to see me incarnated as a mother.

  • She must have incarnated to find you.

  • That we're, we Incarnate into these bodies that grow sick and old and die.

  • But as we Incarnate in in our bodies, that the the deal is that we forget that we are that one thing.

  • She'd incarnate in a man's body.

  • Then, after our life, we can stop incarnating when all beings are equally ready for that release.

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  • In the attractions of love, divine Sophia creates the means through which she is incarnated.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Because time and other limitations don't really exist, souls are able to incarnate simultaneously into numerous timeframes and dimensions.

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  • In the terminology of Sri Aurobindo, "psychic" is the soul that incarnates from life to life and evolves through different experiences.

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  • In some cultures, it is believed that a person's soul can incarnate as an animal after death.

Synonyms

to enflesh
vsto incarnate
  • Literature
1 9.9

To give a real physical form to an idea or feeling

applies to taking a human living form rather than giving form to ideas

Compounds

7.7

A person who shows deep kindness and care for other people

A person who looks very happy and makes others feel glad

A person who is full of joy and makes other people happy

How Embodied

to incarnate
  • Formal
1 7.3
to embody
104 5.1
to appear
873 1.0

Surface Forms

incarnate infinitive
incarnated past
incarnated past participle
incarnating present participle
incarnates third person singular

Morphology

incarnate = incarnation (semi-transparent) = in + carn + ate

The sense 'to take on physical form' aligns with the same morphological composition; however, because 'carn' is a Latinate combining form rather than a common English root, the derivation is only partially transparent.

Etymology

The word incarnate comes from Latin parts in- 'in' and carn- 'flesh', and it was often used for gods who became human. So to incarnate is to take on a physical, living form — literally to 'become flesh'.