embody

em- +‎ body

• Rhymes: -ɒdi

embody (third-person singular simple present embodies, present participle embodying, simple past and past participle embodied)

1. (transitive) To represent in a physical form; to incarnate or personify.

   As the car salesman approached, wearing a plaid suit and slicked-back hair, he seemed to embody sleaze.

   • South

     The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin.

   • 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in New York Times‎:

     The generational shift Mr. Obama once embodied is, in fact, well under way, but it will not change Washington as quickly — or as harmoniously — as a lot of voters once hoped.

2. (transitive) To include or represent, especially as part of a cohesive whole.
   • 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide‎, page 10:

     One reason for the popularity of portmanteau words in naming language hybrids may be the fact that the names themselves embody a type of hybridity.

   The US Constitution aimed to embody the ideals of diverse groups of people, from Puritans to Deists.

   The principle was recognized by some of the early Greek philosophers who embodied it in their systems.

3. (intransitive) To unite in a body or mass.
   • 1794, Robert Southey, Wat Tyler:

     Nay, my good friend—the people will remain
     Embodied peaceably, till Parliament
     Confirm the royal charter: tell your king so:
     We will await the Charter’s confirmation,
     Meanwhile comporting ourselves orderly
     As peaceful citizens, not risen in tumult,
     But to redress their evils.

• (represent in physical form): actualize, concretize, effigiate, materialize, objectify, realize, reify, thingify
• (include or represent): embrace, encompass, enfold
• (unite in a body or mass): fuse, integrate, merge; see also Thesaurus:coalesce

• disembody
• embodiment

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