INCARNATE


Meaning of INCARNATE in English

I. in ‧ car ‧ nate 1 /ɪnˈkɑːnət, ɪnˈkɑːnɪt $ -ɑːr-/ BrE AmE adjective

[ Date: 1300-1400 ; Language: Late Latin ; Origin: past participle of incarnare , from Latin caro 'flesh' ]

1 . be evil/beauty/greed etc incarnate to have an extreme amount of a particular quality:

He is now respectability incarnate.

2 . having taken human form:

Jesus, the incarnate Son of God

The media cast him as the devil incarnate (=someone very evil) .

II. in ‧ car ‧ nate 2 /ˈɪnkɑːneɪt $ -ɑːr-/ BrE AmE verb [transitive] formal

1 . to represent a particular quality in a physical or human form:

The crown incarnates national power.

2 . to make something appear in a human form

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.