Definition of incarnate

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in·car·nate    (n-kärnt) KEY 

ADJECTIVE:

1. 1. Invested with bodily nature and form: an incarnate spirit.
   2. Embodied in human form; personified: a villain who is evil incarnate.
2. Incarnadine.

TRANSITIVE VERB:
in·car·nat·ed, in·car·nat·ing, in·car·nates (-nt)

1. 1. To give bodily, especially human, form to.
   2. To personify.
2. To realize in action or fact; actualize: a community that incarnates its founders' ideals.

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ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English, from Late Latin incarntus, past participle of incarnre, to make flesh : Latin in-, causative pref. ; see in-² + Latin car, carn-, flesh; see sker-¹ in Indo-European roots

OTHER FORMS:
in·carnator(Noun)