embod1meent, ImbodIment

[English embody; -ment.] 1. The act or proce of embodying or investing with a body. 2. The state of being embodied or invested with a body; bodily or material representation. 3. The act of collecting or forming together into a body or united whole; incorporation; as, the . embodiment of troops into battalions, divisions, 4. The act of collecting or concentrating together; as, the embodiment of thoughts in a discourse; the act of including in other matter; as, the embodi ment of a clause in a bill. 5. A concentrated representation or emblem; e ence in a bodily form; as, He is the very embodi ment of courage, . ěm-bod-, *Im-bod-ỹ, v. t. & i. [Pref. em, and Eng. body (q. v.).] A. Transitive : 1. To invest with a material body; to incarnate. "I have again made use of the Platonic hypothesis, that spirits are embodied ." -Glanvill : Witchcraft, § 11. 2. To collect or form into a body or united whole; to incorporate, to concentrate; as, to embody troops into battalions, divisions, . 3. To gather together; to concentrate and present to the senses or mental perception. "Could I embody and unbosom now That which is most within me." Byron: Childe Harold, iii. 97. 4. To include, to incorporate; as, to embody a clause in a bill or act. *B. In trans.: To join together into one body or ma ; to unite, to coalesce. "Firmly to embody against this court party and its practices."-Burke. On the Present Discontents. *ěm-bog, v . t. [Pref.em, and Eng. bog (q. v.).] To plunge or cause to stick in a bog. "General Murray was inclosed, embogged, and defeated."- Walpole : To Mann, iii. 392. *ěm-bō gue, v. i. [Pref. em, and O. Fr. boque Fr. bouche a mouth; Lat. bucca the cheek. To discharge itself, as a stream, into the sea, .; to disembogue. *em-boil, *em-boyl, v. i. & t . [Prefix em , and Eng. boil (q. v.).] A. In trans. To boil, to be heated, as with rage "The knight emboyling in his haughty hart." Spenser: F. Q., II. iv. 9. B. Trans.: To cause to boil, to heat, as with rage. "Faynt, wearie, sore, emboyled, grieved, brent." Spenser. F. Q., I. xi. 28.