(v. t.) 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.
(v. i.) To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce.
Example Sentences:
(1) The various evocational changes appear to form sets of interconnected systems and this complex network seems to embody some plasticity since it has been possible to suppress experimentally some of the most universal evocational events or alter their temporal order without impairing evocation itself.
(2) The stages of mourning involve cognitive learning of the reality of the loss; behaviours associated with mourning, such as searching, embody unlearning by extinction; finally, physiological concomitants of grief may influence unlearning by direct effects on neurotransmitters or neurohormones, such as cortisol, ACTH, or norepinephrine.
(3) Originally, it was to be named Le Reve, after one of the Picassos that Wynn and his wife own; but, as of last month, it is to be called Wynn Las Vegas, embodying a dream of a different kind.
(4) "The disrespect embodied in these apparent mass violations of the law is part of a larger pattern of seeming indifference to the constitution that is deeply troubling to millions of Americans in both political parties," he said.
(5) "It looks as if the noxious mix of rightwing Australian populism, as represented by Crosby and his lobbying firm, and English saloon bar reactionaries, as embodied by [Nigel] Farage and Ukip, may succeed in preventing this government from proceeding with standardised cigarette packs, despite their popularity with the public," said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the health charity Action on Smoking and Health.
(6) The menace we’re facing – and I say we, because no one is spared – is embodied by the hooded men who are ravaging the cradle of civilization.
(7) More problematic for Brown is that he has come to embody a government sufficiently unconvinced of its own case as to risk short-changing the armed forces at the front.
(8) So, at the end of her life, Williams, with other Hillsborough families, was recognised not as part of some Liverpool rabble but as a shining example: an everyday person embodying the extraordinary power and depth of human love.
(9) Patrick Vieira, captain and on-pitch embodiment of Wenger’s reign, won the trophy with the last kick of his career at the club in the season when the Arsenal-United axis was finally broken by Chelsea at the top of the Premier League.
(10) He is the embodiment of the belief that money and power provide a licence to impose one’s will on others, whether that entitlement is expressed by grabbing women or grabbing the finite resources from a planet on the verge of catastrophic warming.
(11) During extension, lateral flexion, and rotation of the neck, the cervical transverse process engages to the top of the upper articular process of the subjacent vertebra, thus embodying the locking mechanism which plays an important role in the stabilization of the cervical spine and the protection of the integrity of vertebral arteries, spinal cord, and nerve roots.
(12) Though his life was to be the embodiment of a secularised form of dissent, his high moral seriousness and egalitarianism surely had roots in this radical Protestant background.
(13) "These results," said Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, "represent a tremendous reduction in human suffering and are a clear validation of the approach embodied in the MDGs.
(14) This flexibility supports the hypothesis that the principles embodied are rather universal and can account for the development of various nervous system structures.
(15) Every question asked by a therapist may be seen to embody some intent and to arise from certain assumptions.
(16) When you're elected, you become the person that embodies France .
(17) It has become the agricultural embodiment of his beliefs about everything from the natural world to the globalised economy.
(18) This paper describes and discusses a strategy for the design of an expressive communication aid for the non-vocal which is highly flexible and which embodies the principle of user-specifiable function.
(19) These criteria, embodying clinical reappraisal of the patient, skin retesting and definitive RAST profile results, are offered as a new approach for consideration by the clinical allergist in the care of his patients.
(20) Furthermore, feminism requires new forms of social interaction that embody the esthetical space women need to experience life as full-fledged citizens.
Incarnate
Definition:
(a.) Not in the flesh; spiritual.
(a.) Invested with flesh; embodied in a human nature and form; united with, or having, a human body.
(a.) Flesh-colored; rosy; red.
(v. t.) To clothe with flesh; to embody in flesh; to invest, as spirits, ideals, etc., with a human from or nature.
(v. i.) To form flesh; to granulate, as a wound.
Example Sentences:
(1) Phil has to go through every incarnation of what he thinks love is until he really gets it."
(2) The Brotherhood's Libyan incarnation won only 10% of the vote in last year's congressional elections, but gained support with its campaign to mandate wholesale purges of Gaddafi-era officials.
(3) He looks younger than even the freshest-faced incarnation: skin smooth and honeyed, sipping an almond milk cocktail in one of London's few raw-food vegan restaurants ("I plan to live into my hundreds").
(4) Hall said it would be given the budget it needed to do the job, raising the prospect that far from having its budget cut, as much of the corporation has had to do, it may get more money in its next incarnation.
(5) But rather than stew in bitterness, Hodgson's departure seems to have focused the band in much the same way as getting dropped in their early days (in their incarnation as Parva) did.
(6) But one thing that distinguishes today's establishment from earlier incarnations is its sense of triumphalism.
(7) "Ironically the church is a church of the incarnation.
(8) For decades, "Tricky Dicky" was the supreme hate figure for the American left, the incarnation of the antichrist for Democrats.
(9) If the EU learns the lesson of the eurozone crisis and rows back from some of the more unbalanced and excessively intrusive initiatives of which the euro itself in its current incarnation has become the symbol, the Greek crisis may turn out to have been just another of those stutters that accompany any grand political experiment.
(10) I think of the younger, gayer, less neurotic incarnation of myself that appears on Facebook.
(11) The trophy has been through several incarnations, but this year's competition is the first where the MLS sides' entry isn't staggered according to league position - ensuring that 16 ties would take place featuring the top tier sides, with a chance of an upset in each of them.
(12) As Cohn himself pointed out, all his work was fundamentally concerned with the study of the same phenomenon: "the urge to purify the world through the annihilation of some category of human beings imagined as agents of corruption and incarnations of evil".
(13) But he said: “LVMH is the illustration, the incarnation of the worst, according to these extreme-leftist observers, of what the market economy produces.” Switching to irony, he said: “We have it all wrong.
(14) In most languages, the most common sexist insults are "whore" or "slut", which makes women want to distance themselves from the stigma associated with those words, and from those who incarnate it.
(15) An early incarnation of the uncertainty principle appeared in a 1927 paper by Heisenberg, a German physicist who was working at Niels Bohr 's institute in Copenhagen at the time, titled " On the Perceptual Content of Quantum Theoretical Kinematics and Mechanics ".
(16) But in its most critical passage, Tuesday’s report merely called for the American nuns to “carefully review their spiritual practices and ministry to assure that these are in harmony with Catholic teaching about God, creation, the incarnation and the redemption,” and called for greater dialogue.
(17) It has, however, detailed where the new boundary will lie compared to its current incarnation.
(18) Past incarnations of the Union would have chosen this as their moment to fold, but instead Philadelphia struck back before the half, and while it would take till injury time to do so, and thanks to another penalty, they got out of the game with Sébastien le Toux’s late equaliser.
(19) Cultural puritans might denounce the whole idea as a perverse extreme of reality TV, which in its Big Brother incarnation – a format also invented by the Dutch – was always designed primarily as a form of psychological torture for our sadistic viewing pleasure.
(20) In War and Peace, he successfully depicted the public and national soul as incarnated in a vast array of individuals, and the novel tries, in a compelling way, to define the same unity amongst his characters.