资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Embody \Em*bod"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Embodied}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Embodying}.]
To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a
body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to
embody one's ideas in a treatise. [Written also {imbody}.]
Devils embodied and disembodied. --Sir W.
Scott.
The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided
from sin. --South.
资料来源 : WordNet®
embodied
adj 1: expressed by; "the idea embodied in the text"
2: possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed corporal
melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an
incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term" [syn:
{bodied}, {corporal}, {corporate}, {incarnate}]
embody
v 1: represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil
wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the
feelings of the artist" [syn: {incarnate}, {body forth},
{substantiate}]
2: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was
Hamlet" [syn: {be}, {personify}]
3: represent or express something abstract in tangible form;
"This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic
period"
[also: {embodied}]
embodied
See {embody}