(embodies, ~ing, embodied)
1.
To ~ an idea or quality means to be a symbol or expression of that idea or quality.
Jack Kennedy embodied all the hopes of the 1960s...
That stability was embodied in the Gandhi family.
= represent
VERB: V n, be V-ed in/by n
2.
If something is embodied in a particular thing, the second thing contains or consists of the first.
The proposal has been embodied in a draft resolution...
UK employment law embodies arbitration and conciliation mechanisms for settling industrial disputes.
VERB: be V-ed in/by n, V n