incarnating

Verb

incarnate (third-person singular simple present incarnates, present participle incarnating, simple past and past participle incarnated)

1. (intransitive) To embody in flesh; to invest with a bodily, especially a human, form.
   • For one thing, we virtually decided that these morbidities and the hellish Himalayan Mi-Go were one and the same order of incarnated nightmare.1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 2, in The Whisperer in Darkness
2. (broadly, intransitive) To gain full existence (bodily or otherwise).
   • SCP-3125 incarnated the following winter.2019 August 26, qntm, “Unthreaded”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 161
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To incarn; to become covered with flesh; to heal over.
   • My uncle Toby’s wound was near well, and as soon as the surgeon recovered his surprize, and could get leave to say as much—he told him, 'twas just beginning to incarnate.1760, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Penguin, published 2003, page 83
4. (transitive) To make carnal; to reduce the spiritual nature of.
   • This essence to incarnate and imbrute, / That to the height of deity aspired.1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC...
5. (figuratively, transitive) To put into or represent in a concrete form, as an idea.
   • Truly, that special world presented itself to me as the arena of my perceptual activity and therefore as the world of my first reading. The texts, the words, the letters of that context were incarnated in a series of things, objects, and signs.2005, Paulo Freire, Donaldo Macedo, Literacy: Reading the Word and the World, →ISBN, page 20

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