Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To invest with flesh; incarnate.
- To become invested or covered with flesh.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To cover or invest with flesh.
- intransitive verb rare To develop flesh.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb dated To heal; to cover with flesh or to become covered with flesh.
- verb rare To become flesh, to
incarnate .
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Examples
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Church (see Petavius, "De incarn.", xii, 12), the prophet here foretells the everlasting Sacrifice of the New Dispensation.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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St. Fulgentius (Ep. xvii, De incarn. et grat., n. 67), "opens the ear of the interior man".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Chryfofto* inter pagasos uerfastes » ut mus, in hemiK Quod Chri - propalam figoum ederent ihisyiilr Deus: Crux contra fuae profefiiiuHiSy qua ab infi - Jkemones tropdeum y partus delihus fepararentur, ncue iiter undas periclitantiumj et quidquam difiimulare uelle Jpes Cbriftianorum* S, Atha - uiderentur, nietu periculi, nadus lib. de incarn. uerbi: quod Chrillum profitentibus Signp crucis magica omnis peh Itsur LffiER II,
Panegyrici veteres qvos ex codice ms. librisqve collatis recensvit ae notis integris iisqve partim ad hve ineditis Christiani Gottlibii Schwarzii et excerptis aliorvm additis etiam svis instrvxit et illvstravit Wolfgangvs Iaegervs .. Schwarz, Christian Gottlieb, 1675-1751 1779
fbharjo commented on the word incarn
incarn archaic verb (14th century) to heal
December 27, 2006
seanahan commented on the word incarn
Is this related to "incarnate", or less likely, "incarnadine"?
December 28, 2006