<adj.all> what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind an incarnate spirit `corporate' is an archaic term
invested with a bodily form especially of a human body
<adj.all> a monarch...regarded as a god incarnate
Incarnate \In*car"nate\, a. [Pref. in- not + carnate.] Not in the flesh; spiritual. [Obs.]
I fear nothing . . . that devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do. --Richardson.
Incarnate \In*car"nate\, a. [L. incarnatus, p. p. of incarnare to incarnate, pref. in- in + caro, carnis, flesh. See {Carnal}.] 1. Invested with flesh; embodied in a human nature and form; united with, or having, a human body.
Here shalt thou sit incarnate. --Milton.
He represents the emperor and his wife as two devils incarnate, sent into the world for the destruction of mankind. --Jortin.
2. Flesh-colored; rosy; red. [Obs.] --Holland.
Incarnate \In*car"nate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Incarnated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Incarnating}.] To clothe with flesh; to embody in flesh; to invest, as spirits, ideals, etc., with a human from or nature.
This essence to incarnate and imbrute, That to the height of deity aspired. --Milton.
Incarnate \In*car"nate\, v. i. To form flesh; to granulate, as a wound. [R.]
My uncle Toby's wound was nearly well -- 't was just beginning to incarnate. --Sterne.
"You've got people who don't consider the Soviet Union the evil empire or evil incarnate," Legere said, but recommended caution in case Gorbachev doesn't last.
Winds of independence, blown from the north by an 800-year-old ghost incarnate, are giving Rome a few shivers.
Nobody can pretend to incarnate the will of the people." The Socialists tried to act like victors.
"Saddam Hussein replaces the Ayatollah as the devil incarnate in the Mideast, and Israel's strategic importance is again highlighted," says New York Rep. Downey.