(incarnating, ~d)
1.
If you say that someone is a quality ~, you mean that they represent that quality or are typical of it in an extreme form.
She is evil ~...
= personified
ADJ: n ADJ
2.
You use ~ to say that something, especially a god or spirit, is represented in human form.
Why should God become ~ as a male?...
ADJ: v-link ADJ, n ADJ, ADJ n
3.
If you say that a quality is ~d in a person, you mean that they represent that quality or are typical of it in an extreme form.
The iniquities of the regime are ~d in one man.
...a writer who ~s the changing consciousness of the Americas.
= embody
VERB: be V-ed in n, V n
4.
If you say that someone or something is ~d in a particular form, you mean that they appear on earth in that form.
The god Vishnu was ~d on earth as a king.
VERB: usu passive, be V-ed prep