Incarnate



GRE 蓝宝 Barron

解释

GRE 红宝书

• adj. 具有肉体的; 化身的
• ［英］ adj. 具有肉体的 ( given a bodily form) ; 化身的 ( personified)
• ［记］ in ( 进入) +carn ( 肉体) +ate ( 思想等) -> 变成肉体化身
• ［同］ 同根词: carnage ( 大屠杀) ; carnal ( 肉欲的) 派生词: incarnation ( n. 具体化, 化身)

Webster Collegiate

I. adjective

• Etymology: Middle English incarnat, from Late Latin incarnatus, past participle of incarnare to incarnate, from Latin in- + carn-, caro flesh — more at carnal
• Date: 14th century
• 1.
  • a. invested with bodily and especially human nature and form
  • b. made manifest or comprehensible ; embodied <a fiend incarnate>
• 2. incarnadine <incarnate clover>

II. transitive verb (-nated; -nating)

• Date: 1533
• to make incarnate: as
  • a. to give bodily form and substance to <incarnates the devil as a serpent>
  • b.
    • (1) to give a concrete or actual form to ; actualize
    • (2) to constitute an embodiment or type of <no one culture incarnates every important human value — Denis Goulet>

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