Verb
embody
- (transitive) To represent in a physical or concrete form; to incarnate or personify.
- As the car salesman approached, wearing a plaid suit and slicked-back hair, he seemed to embody sleaze.
- The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin.
- (transitive) To represent in some other form such as a code of laws.
- The US Constitution aimed to embody the ideals of diverse groups of people, from Puritans to Deists.
- The principle was recognized by some of the early Greek philosophers who embodied it in their systems.
- (transitive) To comprise or include as part of a cohesive whole; to be made up of.
- 1962, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office (page 1261)
- For use in a nursery for cradling a baby to sleep, a baby cradler comprising, in combination, a stand embodying a mobile base, uprights attached to and rising perpendicularly from the base and having axially aligned bearings, [...]
- 1962, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office (page 1261)
- (intransitive) To unite in a body or mass.
- 1794, Robert Southey, Wat Tyler. A Dramatic Poem. In Three Acts, London: Printed [by J. M‘Creery] for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, […], published 1817, OCLC 362102 ↗, Act III, pages 55–56 ↗:
- Nay, my good friend—the people will remain / Embodied peaceably, till Parliament / Confirm the royal charter: tell your king so: / We will await the Charter's confirmation, / Meanwhile comporting ourselves orderly / As peaceful citizens, not risen in tumult, / But to redress their evils.
- (represent in physical form) actualize, concretize, effigiate, materialize, objectify, realize, reify, thingify
- (include or represent) embrace, encompass, enfold
- (unite in a body or mass) fuse, integrate, merge; see also Thesaurus:coalesce
- French: incarner, personnifier
- German: verkörpern
- Portuguese: incorporar, encarnar, personificar
- Russian: воплоща́ть
- Spanish: personificar, encarnar
- French: représenter
- German: verkörpern
- Russian: олицетворя́ть
- Spanish: incorporar
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