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Definition: Incarnate |
IncarnateAdjective1. Possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term". 2. Invested with a bodily form especially of a human body; "a monarch...regarded as a god incarnate". Verb1. Make concrete and real. 2. Represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "incarnate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
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"Incarnate" is a general term given to the incarnation of a god or goddess, or an archetype or archetypal force.
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Synonyms: IncarnateSynonyms: bodied (adj), corporal (adj), corporate (adj), embodied (adj), body forth (v), embody (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: incarnating (medicine). |
| Antonym: disincarnate (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bad Man | Villain, rascal, scoundrel, miscreant, budmash, caitiff; wretch, reptile, viper, serpent, basilisk, urchin; tiger, monster; devil; (demon); devil incarnate; demon in human shape, Nana Sahib; hellhound, hellcat; rakehell. |
Evil doer | Monster; fiend; (demon); devil incarnate, demon in human shape; Frankenstein's monster. |
Intrinsicality | Adjective: derived from within, subjective; intrinsic, intrinsical; fundamental, normal; implanted, inherent, essential, natural; innate, inborn, inbred, ingrained, inwrought; coeval with birth, genetous, haematobious, syngenic; radical, incarnate, thoroughbred, hereditary, inherited, immanent; congenital, congenite; connate, running in the blood; ingenerate, ingenite; indigenous; in the grain; Noun: bred in the bone, instinctive; inward, internal; to the manner born; virtual. |
Satan | The tempter; the evil one, the evil spirit; the Adversary; the archenemy; the author of evil, the wicked one, the old Serpent; the Prince of darkness, the Prince of this world, the Prince of the power of the air; the foul fiend, the arch fiend; the devil incarnate; the common enemy, the angel of the bottomless pit; Abaddon, Apollyon. |
Vice | Base, sinister, scurvy, foul, gross, vile, black, grave, facinorous, felonious, nefarious, shameful, scandalous, infamous, villainous, of a deep dye, heinous; flagrant, flagitious; atrocious, incarnate, accursed. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Incarnate |
| English words defined with "incarnate": bodied ♦ corporal, corporate ♦ embodied ♦ Humanify ♦ Incarnated, Incarnating, Inflesh ♦ Logos ♦ reincarnate ♦ son ♦ Uncarnate ♦ word. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "incarnate": Baptism of Christ ♦ Dalai-Lama ♦ Odd's. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "incarnate": Humanify. (references) |
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Screenplays | He's Jack Kerouac incarnate. (Tank Girl; writing credit: Alan Martin; Jamie Hewlett) | |
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Edgar Quinet | What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world? |
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| "Incarnate" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 52.11% of the time. "Incarnate" is used about 71 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 52.11% | 37 | 56,631 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 35.21% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 12.68% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 71 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "incarnate": a devil incarnate ♦ become incarnate ♦ devil incarnate ♦ innocence incarnate ♦ nuns of the Word Incarnate. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "incarnate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i mishëruar (embodied), personifikoj (embody, personalize, personate, personify), mishëroj (embody, epitomize, exteriorize, externalize, objectify, personate, personify). (various references) | |
Arabic | مجسم (anthropomorphic, materialized, stereophonic), مجسد, على شكل إنسان, جسم (mass, organism, project, reify, relieve), جسد (body, bone, bulk, corpus, embody, externalize, frame, impersonate, incorporate, materialize, model, mold, mould, personate, personify, reify, shape, substantiate). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | въплъщавам (embody, externalize, impersonate, incorporate, materialize, personify), въплътен (embodied), осъществявам (accomplish, achieve, carry into effect, carry through, embody, fulfil, fulfill, implement, instrument, materialize, put into effect, realize), осъществен (accomplished). (various references) | |
Chinese | 化身 (Incarnation). (various references) | |
Czech | ztìlesnìný (embodied), zosobnìný, vtìlený. (various references) | |
Danish | incarnatus, nedgroet, koedfarvet. (various references) | |
Dutch | ingegroeid. (various references) | |
Farsi | مجسم(بصورت ادمی), مجسم کردن (Character, Depict, Embody, Epitomize, Figure, Image, Portray), صورت خارجی دادن , دارای شکل جسمانی , برنگ گوشتی . (various references) | |
Finnish | ruumiillistaa (embody). (various references) | |
French | incarné (ingrowing, ingrown). (various references) | |
German | verkörpern (embody, epitomize, impersonate, personalize, personify, portray, to embody, to incarnate, to personify, to typify, typify). (various references) | |
Greek | ενσαρκώνω (embody), ενσαρκώμενοσ, αυτός που εισχώρησε στην σάρκα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | בצורת אדם. (various references) | |
Hungarian | megtestesült (embodied). (various references) | |
Indonesian | penjelmaan (embodiment, personification), menjelma (embody, personify, transfigure). (various references) | |
Italian | incarnito (ingrown), incarnato (bloom, incarnadine), incarnare (become incarnate, embody, epitomise, epitomize, grow in). (various references) | |
Manx | 'syn eill, corpagh (bodily, corporal, physical). (various references) | |
Norwegian | legemliggjøre (embody). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | incarnateay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | encarnado (incarnadine, judas-colored, judas-coloured, red). (various references) | |
Romanian | întrupat, întrupa (incorporate, materialize), întruchipat, întruchipa (body forth, embody, incorporate, materialize, objectify, personify, represent, typify). (various references) | |
Russian | воплощенный (embodied), воплощать воплощенный, воплощать (embody, exteriorize, externalize, impersonate, objectify, personalize, personify). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ovaplotiti (epitomize, give birth to), ovaploćen, otelovljen (embodied), oličiti (personify). (various references) | |
Spanish | encarnado (blush, carnation, incarnadine, ingrowing, ingrown, red), encarnar (blood, embody, incarnadine). (various references) | |
Swedish | förkroppsliga (embody, personify, substantiate). (various references) | |
Thai | ทำให้เป็นรูปร่าง (fashion), ซึ่งเป็นตัวเป็นตน. (various references) | |
Turkish | insan şekline girmiş, somutlaştırmak (concrete, concretize, embody, objectify, reify), cisimlenmiş, cisimlendirmek. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | уособлювати (impersonate, personalize, personify, typify), втілювати (body, inculcate, objectify, objectivate, objectize, personalize, personate, personify, project), втілений, загоюватися (heal, repair). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | màu thịt tươi, cụ thể bằng xương. (various references) | |
Welsh | ymgnawdoli (become flesh, become incarnate). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "incarnate": incarnated, incarnates. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "incarnate": reincarnate. (additional references) | |
Words containing "incarnate": reincarnated, reincarnates. (additional references) | |
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"Incarnate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: encarnate, excarnate, incanate, incarante, incarnato, incatnate, incenrate, Incoronata, incurvate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "incarnate" (pronounced i'nkÄ"rnut or i'nkÄ"rnā't) |
| 5 | -Ä" r n u t | garnet. |
| 4 | -r n u t | hornet. |
| 3 | -n u t | alternate, affectionate, baronet, Bennet, bicarbonate, bluebonnet, bonnet, cabinet, compassionate, coordinate, definite, diaconate, dispassionate, disproportionate, effeminate, electromagnet, extortionate, ferromagnet, fortunate, geminate, granite, indefinite, indeterminate, indiscriminate, infinite, innominate, inordinate, laminate, magnate, magnet, minute, obstinate, passionate, peanut, Pinot, planet, proportionate, rennet, senate, Sennet, sultanate, tenet, unfortunate, unit. |
| 8 | i' n k Ä" r n ā' t | reincarnate. |
| 3 | -n ā' t | agglutinate, alienate, assassinate, carbonate, chlorinate, concatenate, contaminate, culminate, hyphenate, illuminate, impersonate, impregnate, decaffeinate, decontaminate, denominate, designate, determinate, detonate, discriminate, disseminate, dominate, donate, eliminate, emanate, exterminate, fascinate, fulminate, germinate, halogenate, hibernate, hydrogenate, incriminate, indoctrinate, inseminate, insubordinate, isocyanate, italianate, marinate, nominate, originate, oxygenate, pollinate, predominate, procrastinate, rejuvenate, renominate, resonate, ruminate, stagnate, subordinate, terminate, titanate, urinate. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-i-n-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: carinate, craniate. | |
-2 letters: acarine, ancient, anticar, cannier, cantina, carinae, cateran, ceratin, certain, creatin, entrain, narcein, tacrine. | |
-3 letters: acetin, acinar, antiar, arcane, arnica, canine, canner, cannie, canter, carate, carina, carnet, carnie, catena, centai, centra, crania, cretin, enatic, encina, inaner, incant, innate, intern, narine, nectar, ratine, recant, retain, retina, taenia, tanner, tannic, tanrec, tinner, trance. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-i-n-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: anticancer, incarnated, incarnates, pancreatin. | |
+2 letters: anacreontic, antinuclear, centenarian, interactant, pancreatins, recantation, reincarnate. | |
+3 letters: anacreontics, ascertaining, centenarians, deracinating, deracination, interactants, nonbacterial, nonsectarian, octogenarian, recantations, reincarnated, reincarnates, tabernacling, transoceanic. | |
+4 letters: ascertainment, decarbonating, decarbonation, deracinations, documentarian, incarcerating, incarceration, interactional, intercalating, intercalation, necessitarian, neuroanatomic, nonparametric, nontheatrical, octogenarians, reacquainting, recontaminate, reincarnating, reincarnation, revaccinating, revaccination, transactinide, transmittance. | |
+5 letters: antiallergenic, anticarcinogen, ascertainments, centralization, congregational, conservational, containerboard, contraindicate, conversational, decarbonations, decontaminator, documentarians, handicraftsmen, incarcerations, intercalations, intracutaneous, intransigeance, necessitarians, nomenclatorial, nonradioactive, recanalization, recontaminated, recontaminates, reincarnations, revaccinations, sectarianizing, transmittances, transparencies, tyrannicalness, unappreciation. | |
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