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1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. i. 14 Imagination bodies forth the formes of things Vnknowne. View more context for this quotation

1782 R. Tickell Prol., in R. Griffith Variety (facing Epil.) His fancy bodies forth whole rows Of absent Belles, and visionary Beaux; His fertile pen assists the ideal vapours, And gives them local fixtures in the papers.

1798 S. E. Brydges Arthur Fitz-Albini I. iv. 83 Thy glens..All rise, and, colour'd in thy fairy light, Are bodied forth before my ravish'd sight.

1820 W. Scott Monastery II. i. 9 The beau-ideal which Dame Glendinning had been bodying forth in her imagination.

1864 A. Bain Senses & Intellect (ed. 2) ii. iv. 605 The power of bodying forth or realizing what is described in language, is one of the meanings of Conception.

1889 J. Davidson Scaramouch in Naxos iii, in Plays 163 The brine, the sea-pinks, and the soaring moon Seem thoughts of mine which now I body forth.

2003 J. M. Coetzee Elizabeth Costello (2004) iv. 97 By bodying forth the jaguar, Hughes shows us that we too can embody animals—by the process called poetic invention.

1759 H. Venn Serm. ii. 28 Whatever is Personal strikes the Mind with peculiar Force, and we conceive Truth the more strongly, when it stands bodied forth as it were, in some Character.

1800–24 T. Campbell Chaucer & Windsor 1 Long shalt thou flourish, Windsor! bodying forth Chivalric times.

1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi II. iv. i. 95 Wonderfully did her beauty..body forth the brightest vision that ever floated before the eyes of Tasso.

1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iv. 200 The spiritual will always body itself forth in the temporal history of men.

1922 E. H. Hickey Devotional Poems 16 What we essay to body forth in speech.

2001 Kenyon Rev. Winter 152 But Balanchine also gave ‘to airy nothing/A local habitation and a name’ by bodying forth an unmatched choreographic oeuvre.

1821 W. Scott Kenilworth II. v. 115 A sharp, lively, conceited expression of countenance, seemed to body forth a vain, hair-brained coxcomb.

1846 J. Keble Lyra Innocentium 94 One bodies forth a Virgin Form Holding aloft a Cross of might.

1879 R. W. Church Spenser (1883) iv. 90 The allegory bodies forth the trials which beset the life of man.

1883 Spectator No. 2874. 958 Both as egotist and as patriot M. de Lesseps bodies forth the age.

1927 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 42 501 This experience is bodied forth in the symbol of a bereaved lover who wanders in the wood of mourning.

1963 F. C. Crews Pooh Perplex 59 His exchanging of an earthly home for a Heavenly one occurs in the ‘Pooh Builds a House’ episode; while His Own opening of the gates of the New Jerusalem for all the Saved is bodied forth in ‘Eeyore Finds the Wolery’.

2007 Weekly Standard (Nexis) 12 Feb. (Books & Arts Suppl.) Lady Macbeth's guilt is bodied forth in her sleepwalking.