Imbody \Im*bod"y\, v. i. [See {Embody}.] To become corporeal; to assume the qualities of a material body. See {Embody}.
The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes. --Milton.
Embody \Em*bod"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Embodied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Embodying}.] To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise. [Written also {imbody}.]
Devils embodied and disembodied. --Sir W. Scott.
The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin. --South.
Embody \Em*bod"y\, v. i. To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce. [Written also {imbody}.]
Firmly to embody against this court party. --Burke.