embody

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• transitive verb To give a bodily form to; incarnate.
• transitive verb To represent in bodily or material form.
• transitive verb To make part of a system or whole; incorporate.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To paint with body or solidity. See impasto.
• To invest with an animate body; lodge in a physical form; incarnate; hence, to give form to; formulate; coördinate the elements or principles of; express, arrange, or exemplify intelligibly or perceptibly: as, to embody thought in words; legislation is embodied in statutes; architecture is embodied art.
• To form or collect into a body or united mass; collect into a whole; incorporate; organize; concentrate: as, to embody troops; to embody scattered traditions or folk-lore.
• Synonyms To combine, compact, integrate, comprehend, comprise.
• To unite into a body, mass, or collection; coalesce.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce.
• transitive verb To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb transitive To represent in a physical form; to incarnate or personify
• verb transitive To include or represent, especially as part of a cohesive whole

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb represent, as of a character on stage
• verb represent or express something abstract in tangible form
• verb represent in bodily form