Incarnadine
(In*car"na*dine), v. t. To dye red or crimson.
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather
The
multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.
Shak. Incarnate
(In*car"nate) a. [Pref. in- not + carnate.] Not in the flesh; spiritual. [Obs.]
I fear nothing . . . that devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do.
Richardson. Incarnate
(In*car"nate), a. [L. incarnatus, p. p. of incarnare to incarnate, pref. in- in + caro, carnis,
flesh. See Carnal.]
1. Invested with flesh; embodied in a human nature and form; united with, or having, a human body.
Here shalt thou sit incarnate.
Milton.
He represents the emperor and his wife as two devils incarnate, sent into the world for the destruction
of mankind.
Jortin. 2. Flesh-colored; rosy; red. [Obs.] Holland.
Incarnate
(In*car"nate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Incarnated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Incarnating ] To clothe with
flesh; to embody in flesh; to invest, as spirits, ideals, etc., with a human from or nature.
This essence to incarnate and imbrute,
That to the height of deity aspired.
Milton. Incarnate
(In*car"nate), v. i. To form flesh; to granulate, as a wound. [R.]
My uncle Toby's wound was nearly well — 't was just beginning to incarnate.
Sterne. Incarnation
(In`car*na"tion) n. [F. incarnation, LL. incarnatio.]
1. The act of clothing with flesh, or the state of being so clothed; the act of taking, or being manifested
in, a human body and nature.
2. (Theol.) The union of the second person of the Godhead with manhood in Christ.
3. An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a reduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification
in person or act.
She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead.
Jeffrey.
The very incarnation of selfishness.
F. W. Robertson. 4. A rosy or red color; flesh color; carnation. [Obs.]
5. (Med.) The process of healing wounds and filling the part with new flesh; granulation.
Incarnative
(In*car"na*tive) a. [Cf. F. incarnatif.] Causing new flesh to grow; healing; regenerative. —
n. An incarnative medicine.
Incarnification
(In*car`ni*fi*ca"tion) n. [See Incarnation, and -fy.] The act of assuming, or state of
being clothed with, flesh; incarnation.
