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embodied, imbodied, ppl. a.|ɛmˈbɒdɪd|
[f. embody v. + -ed1.]
1. Of ‘soul’ or ‘spirit’: Having a body, invested with a body.
α1652Benlowes Theoph. viii. lxxxix. 120 O, could embody'd Soules Sinnes bane view well. 1719De Foe Crusoe (1840) II. iii. 58 Spirits embodied have converse with..spirits unembodied. 1783Johnson Lett. II. 304 External locality has great effects, at least upon all embodied beings. 1839Bailey Festus ii. (1848) 12 A spirit, or embodied blast of air. 1870Max Müller, Sc. Relig. (1873) 365 As men, we only know of embodied spirits. 1880E. Kirke Garfield, 27 The embodied spirit of treason and slavery.
β1691–8Norris Pract. Disc. 243 Words that cannot be..understood by an imbodyed Understanding. 176.Wesley Serm. Wks. 1811 IX. 148 An imbodied spirit cannot form one thought, but by the mediation of its bodily organs.
2. Of principles, ideas, etc.:
a. Expressed or exhibited in material or concrete form;
b. incorporated into a system.
1663J. Spencer Prodigies (1665) 137 There is a great deal of imbodied Art in Nature. 1799Mackintosh Stud. Law Nat. Wks. 1846 I. 364 The embodied experience of mankind. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 37 The individual follows reason, and the city law, which is embodied reason.
3. Formed or combined into a militant body or company; arrayed, marshalled.
1667Milton P.L. i. 573 Such imbodied force, as, nam'd with these, Could merit more than that small infantry. 1715Pope Iliad ii. 540 Not less their number than the embodied cranes. 1798Malthus Popul. (1817) II. 11 The number of embodied troops. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) I. iv. 179 The advocates of a simpler ritual had by no means assumed the shape of an embodied faction. |