incarnate

incarnate
adjective

[often postpositive](especially of a deity or spirit) embodied in flesh; in human form
（尤指神、妖）被赋予肉体的，具人形的
God incarnate.
具人形的上帝。
he chose to be incarnate as a man.
他选择被赋予人形。
■[postpositive]represented in the ultimate or most extreme form
以极端形式体现的
here is capitalism incarnate.
这是一种典型的资本主义。

verb

[with obj.]embody or represent (a deity or spirit) in human form
赋予（神，妖）以人形
the idea that God incarnates himself in man.
上帝自赋人形说。
■put (an idea or other abstract concept) into concrete form
使（观点等抽象概念）具体化，体现
a desire to make things which will incarnate their personality.
创造能体现他们个性的事物的愿望。
■(of a person) be the living embodiment of (a quality)
（人）体现（某种品质）
the man who incarnates the suffering which has affected every single Mozambican.
体现每个莫桑比克人都承受的苦难的人。

语源

late Middle English: from ecclesiastical Latin incarnat- 'made flesh', from the verb incarnare, from in- 'into' + caro, carn- 'flesh'

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