EMBODIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does embodied mean? 

• EMBODIED (adjective)
  The adjective EMBODIED has 1 sense:

1. possessing or existing in bodily form

  Familiarity information: EMBODIED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMBODIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Possessing or existing in bodily form

Synonyms:

bodied; corporal; corporate; embodied; incarnate

Context example:

'corporate' is an archaic term

Similar:

corporeal; material (having material or physical form or substance)

 Context examples 

She was like Hope embodied, to me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud.

(Judaism, NCI Thesaurus)

But whether the sorrow was too vast to be embodied in music, or music too ethereal to uplift a mortal woe, he soon discovered that the Requiem was beyond him just at present.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Surely—I stopped: I could not trust myself to entertain, much less to express, the thought that rushed upon me—that embodied itself,—that, in a second, stood out a strong, solid probability.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Technologies to induce the process of transcription of specific information embodied in the DNA into mRNA (messenger RNA), which is then translated into proteins.

(Expression Technologies for DNA and RNA, NCI Thesaurus)

He had received a good education, but, on succeeding early in life to a small independence, had become indisposed for any of the more homely pursuits in which his brothers were engaged, and had satisfied an active, cheerful mind and social temper by entering into the militia of his county, then embodied.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I only recollect that underneath some white covering on the bed, with a beautiful cleanliness and freshness all around it, there seemed to me to lie embodied the solemn stillness that was in the house; and that when she would have turned the cover gently back, I cried: Oh no! oh no! and held her hand.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)