Incarnate vs Inculcate - What's the difference?
incarnate | inculcate |
Embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.
* Milton
* Jortin
(obsolete) Flesh-colored, crimson.
(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
To put into or represent in a concrete form, as an idea.
Not in the flesh; spiritual.
* Richardson
To teach by repeated instruction.
To induce understanding or a particular sentiment in a person or persons.
In transitive terms the difference between incarnate and inculcate
is that incarnate is to put into or represent in a concrete form, as an idea while inculcate is to induce understanding or a particular sentiment in a person or persons.As verbs the difference between incarnate and inculcate
is that incarnate is to incarn; to become covered with flesh, to heal over while inculcate is to teach by repeated instruction.As an adjective incarnate
is embodied in flesh; given a bodily, especially a human, form; personified.incarnate
English
Etymology 1
From .Adjective
(-)- Here shalt thou sit incarnate .
- He represents the emperor and his wife as two devils incarnate , sent into the world for the destruction of mankind.
- (Holland)
Etymology 2
From the past participle stem of (etyl) .Verb
(incarnat)- This essence to incarnate and imbrute, / That to the height of deity aspired.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "incarnate")Etymology 3
Adjective
(-)- I fear nothing that devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do.
