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Breathing vs Incarnate - What's the difference?

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Breathing is a related term of incarnate.


As verbs the difference between breathing and incarnate

is that breathing is while incarnate is (obsolete|intransitive) to incarn; to become covered with flesh, to heal over.

As a noun breathing

is the act of respiration; a single instance of this.

As an adjective incarnate is

embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified or incarnate can be not in the flesh; spiritual.

breathing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of respiration; a single instance of this.
  • A diacritical mark indicating aspiration or lack thereof.
  • (archaic) Time to recover one's breath; hence, a delay, a spell of time.
  • * 1599 ,
    • DON PEDRO. Count Claudio, when mean you to go to church?
    CLAUDIO. To-morrow, my lord. Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.
    LEONATO. Not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence a just seven-night; and a time too brief too, to have all things answer my mind.
    DON PEDRO. Come, you shake the head at so long a breathing ; but, I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall not go dully by us.
  • Any gentle influence or operation; inspiration.
    • the breathings of the Holy Spirit
  • Aspiration; secret prayer.
  • * Tillotson
    • earnest desires and breathings after that blessed state

    incarnate

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.
  • * Milton
    • Here shalt thou sit incarnate .
  • * Jortin
    • He represents the emperor and his wife as two devils incarnate , sent into the world for the destruction of mankind.
  • (obsolete) Flesh-colored, crimson.
    • (Holland)

    Etymology 2

    From the past participle stem of (etyl) .

    Verb

    (incarnat)
  • (obsolete) To incarn; to become covered with flesh, to heal over.
  • To make carnal, to reduce the spiritual nature of.
  • To embody in flesh, invest with a bodily, especially a human, form.
  • * Milton
    • This essence to incarnate and imbrute, / That to the height of deity aspired.
  • To put into or represent in a concrete form, as an idea.

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "incarnate")

    Related terms

    * carnal * incarnation * reincarnate * reincarnation

    Etymology 3

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not in the flesh; spiritual.
  • * Richardson
    • I fear nothing that devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do.

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