incarnate

Meanings

Adjective

• Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.
• Flesh-colored, crimson.
• Not in the flesh; spiritual.

Verb

• To embody in flesh, invest with a bodily, especially a human, form.
• To incarn; to become covered with flesh, to heal over.
• To make carnal; to reduce the spiritual nature of.
• To put into or represent in a concrete form, as an idea.

Origin

• Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin incarnatus, past participle of incarnari, from in- + Latin caro ("flesh").
• From the past participle stem of Latin incarnare, from in- + caro.
• in- + carnate