embodiment (embodiment)

also imbodiment; mate body; incarnation; bodily presentation: as, metempsychosis is the supposed embodiment of previously existing souls in new forms; she is an embodiment of all the virtues. The theory of embodiment serves several highly imp or tant purposes in savage and barbarian philosophy. E. B. Tylor , Prim. Culture, II. 113. 2. A bringing into or presentation in or through a form; formal expre ion or manifestation; formulation: as, the embodiment of principles in a treatise. A visible memory of the past, and a sparkling embodi . ment of the present. Lathrop, Spanish Vistas, p. 104. Multiform embodiments of selfishne in unjust laws. H. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 451. He [the Sultan) has no rights, for wrong can have no rights, and his whole position is the embodiment of wrong. E. A. Freeman , Amer. Lects., p. 415. 3. Collection or formation into an aggregate body; organization; an aggregate whole; incorporation; concentration: as, the embodiment of troops into battalions, brigades, divisions, etc.; the embodiment of a country's laws. Our own Common Law is mainly an embodiment of the "customs of the realm." H. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., § 529. emboldener the elements or principles of; expre , arrange, or exemplify intelligibly or perce perceptibly: as, to embody thought in words; legislation is embod ied in statutes; architecture is embodied art. embodied. At this turn, sir, you may perceive that I have again made use of the Platonick hypothesis, that Spirits are Glanville, Witchcraft, § 11. The soul while it is embodied can no more be divided from sin, than the body itself can be considered without flesh. South , Sermons, XI. i. Morals can never be safely embodied in the constable. Lowell , Fireside Travels, p. 56. Doctrines, we are afraid, must generally be embodied be fore they can excite a strong public feeling. Macaulay. Even among ourselves embodied righteousne sometimes takes the same abstract form. E. A. Freeman, Venice, p. 388. 2. To form or collect into a body or united ma ; collect into a whole; incorporate; organize; concentrate: as, to embody troops; to embody scattered traditions or folk-lore. Recorded among the visits of kings and amba adors in a precious chronicle that embodied the annals of all public events and copies of public documents. Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 145. We shall be able to fall back upon the Militia battalions, which will be at once embodied , and through whose ranks will be poured into the fighting ranks of the active army a continual supply of drilled and disciplined recruits. Nineteenth Century, XIX. 269. =Syn. 2. To combine, compact, integrate, comprehend, comprise. II. in trans. To unite into a body, ma , or collection; coalesce. The idea of white, which snow yielded yesterday, and another idea of white from another snow to-day, put together in your mind, embody and run into one. Locke . To embody against this court party and its practices. Burke, Present Discontents. embog (em-bog'), v. t.; pret. and pp. embogged, ppr. embogging. [ General Murray got into a mistake and a mora , Walpole, Letters (1760), III. 392. was enclosed embogged, and defeated. It would be calamitous for us, à propos of this matter, to get embogged in a metaphysical discu ion about what real unity and continuity are. W. James, Mind, IX. 6. embogue (em-bog'), v. i.; pret. and pp. em bogued , ppr. emboguing . [ embocar , enter by the mouth, or by a pa or narrow pa age, = Pg . embocar , get into the mouth of a pa age, It. imboccare , feed, instruct, disembogue, = F. emboucher , put into the mouth, refl. disembogue, embogue (> embouchure , q. v.), in (> Sp. en , etc.), in, + bucca , the cheek (> Sp. boc a , Pg. bocca , It. bocca , F. bouche , the mouth): see bucca , and cf. disembogue .] To discharge itself, as a river, at its mouth; disembogue; debouch. [Rare or unused.] emboilt (em-boil'), v. [ em -1 + boill.] I. trans . To heat; cause to burn, as with fever. Faynt, wearie, sore, emboyled , grieved, brent, With heat, toyle, wounds, armes, smart, and inward fire, That never man such mischiefes did torment. Spenser, F. Q., I. xi. 28. II. in trans. To boil violently; hence, to rage with pride or anger. The knight emboyling in his haughtie hart, Knitt all his forces. Spenser, F. Q., II. iv. 9.