[
US
/ɪmˈbɑdid/
]
[ UK /ɛmbˈɒdɪd/ ]
[ UK /ɛmbˈɒdɪd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
possessing or existing in bodily form
what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind
an incarnate spirit
`corporate' is an archaic term
How To Use embodied In A Sentence
- I had to join this long queue, that snaked around a couple of times, and as each person left, a disembodied voice said, ‘Cashier number seven, please!’
- For example, it was embodied in a system of "informal economics". Critical Social Research
- Why then do we long to embrace incorporeality and flee our embodied natures?
- It's a striking image of traumatic birth from a monstrous, disembodied womb. Times, Sunday Times
- Rudyard Kipling's Recessional, in exultant recognition of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, embodied the spirit of that nostalgic period. Responsible Nationhood
- Her illegitimate position has rendered her wraithlike and insubstantial, almost disembodied.
- Likewise, the quality of each sense perception is embodied as a sense consciousness - sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch.
- A disembodied voice emerges from the monitor. Times, Sunday Times
- The dictionary as a mode of literature is the antithesis of automatic writing, that disembodied burbling of the unconscious.
- Yet one cannot be too strict in policing the boundaries between these two levels, for in drawing attention to the poetics of articulation, "Mont Blanc" suggests that philosophical argument inevitably relies on representations of an embodied "I," narrative exempla, privileged metaphors, and repeated terms. Rhyming Sensation in 'Mont Blanc'