Definitions for: Embody

[v] represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet"
[v] represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist"
[v] represent or express something abstract in tangible form; "This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period"

Webster (1913) Definition: Em*bod"y, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embodied; p. pr. & vb.
n. Embodying.]
To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a
body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to
embody one's ideas in a treatise. [Written also imbody.]

Devils embodied and disembodied. --Sir W.
Scott.

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

Em*bod"y, v. i.
To unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce.
[Written also imbody.]

Firmly to embody against this court party. --Burke.

Synonyms: be, body forth, incarnate, personify, substantiate

See Also: body, exemplify, represent, stand for, symbolise, symbolize, typify

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