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incarnator

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in·car·nate   (ĭn-kär'nĭt)   
adj.  

    1. Invested with bodily nature and form: an incarnate spirit.

    2. Embodied in human form; personified: a villain who is evil incarnate.

  2. Incarnadine.

tr.v.   (-nāt') in·car·nat·ed, in·car·nat·ing, in·car·nates

    1. To give bodily, especially human, form to.

    2. To personify.

  2. To realize in action or fact; actualize: a community that incarnates its founders' ideals.


[Middle English, from Late Latin incarnātus, past participle of incarnāre, to make flesh : Latin in-, causative pref.; see in-2 + Latin carō, carn-, flesh; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.]
in·car'na'tor n.
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