Incarnation

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Incarnation \In`car*na"tion\, n. [F. incarnation, LL.
     incarnatio.]
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     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.


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     2. (Theol.) The union of the second person of the Godhead
        with manhood in Christ.
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     3. An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a
        reduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification in
        person or act.
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              She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious
              dead.                                 --Jeffrey.
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              The very incarnation of selfishness.  --F. W.
                                                    Robertson.
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     4. A rosy or red color; flesh color; carnation. [Obs.]
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     5. (Med.) The process of healing wounds and filling the part
        with new flesh; granulation.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  incarnation
       n 1: a new personification of a familiar idea; "the embodiment of
            hope"; "the incarnation of evil"; "the very avatar of
            cunning" [syn: {embodiment}, {avatar}]
       2: (Christianity) the Christian doctrine of the union of God
          and man in the person of Jesus Christ
       3: time passed in a particular bodily form; "he believes that
          his life will be better in his next incarnation"
       4: the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract
          ideas etc. [syn: {personification}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  73 Moby Thesaurus words for "incarnation":
     Christophany, Satanophany, acting, angelophany, aping, apparition,
     appearance, appearing, arising, avatar, characterization, coming,
     coming into being, coming-forth, concretization, corporealization,
     disclosure, dissemination, dumb show, embodiment, emergence,
     enacting, enactment, epiphany, evidence, evincement, exposure,
     expression, forthcoming, imitation, impersonation, incorporation,
     indication, issuance, manifestation, masquerade, materialization,
     materializing, metempsychosis, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming,
     occurrence, opening, pantomime, pantomiming, performance,
     performing, personation, personification, playing, pneumatophany,
     portrayal, posing, presentation, proof, publication, realization,
     reembodiment, reification, reincarnation, revelation, rise, rising,
     showing, showing forth, substantiation, theophany, transmigration,
     unfolding, unfoldment, wild
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Incarnation
     that act of grace whereby Christ took our human nature into
     union with his Divine Person, became man. Christ is both God and
     man. Human attributes and actions are predicated of him, and he
     of whom they are predicated is God. A Divine Person was united
     to a human nature (Acts 20:28; Rom. 8:32; 1 Cor. 2:8; Heb.
     2:11-14; 1 Tim. 3:16; Gal. 4:4, etc.). The union is
     hypostatical, i.e., is personal; the two natures are not mixed
     or confounded, and it is perpetual.