v. Also 9 incarnalize. [f. EN- + CARNALIZE.] trans. To clothe in flesh and blood; fig. to make (an idea) palpable, to embody. Also to make carnal, fleshly, gross or sensual. Hence Encarnalized ppl. a.
1847. Tennyson, Princess, III. 298. Those monstrous males … Encarnalize their spirits.
1850. H. Coleridge, Poems, II. 157. So incarnalise The strong idea.
1860. Ellicott, Life Our Lord, ii. 42. The pagan of the East may have fabled of his encarnalized divinities.
1876. Farrar, Marlb. Serm., 225. The poor, vain … intellect … is encarnalised and depraved.
