imbody
Americanverb (used with object)
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We feel that great events are being enacted; that greater still are in preparation; and we long for an epic, a world-moulding epic, to imbody and depict them.
From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Freytag, Gustav
I have only sketched—sometimes perhaps with too fanciful a pencil, subjects of great importance, which, by being thus rendered popular, may induce abler pens to imbody them in a more permanent form.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
But the Active Intellect, the creative power,--the power to put these shapes and images in art, to imbody the indefinite, and render perfect, is his alone.
From Hyperion by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
The lineaments are indeed true to nature, but no artist could catch the ever varying expression, or imbody that unrivalled grace, which threw a charm around her, more captivating even than her faultless beauty.
From The Rivals of Acadia An Old Story of the New World by Cheney, Harriet Vaughan
In doing so, however, they see not the profound calculation required for nearly every feature thus imbodied.
From Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman by Walker, Alexander
She imbodied all my highest conceptions of female excellence.
From Finger Posts on the Way of Life by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
This is another painful division and shrinkage,— In tears and cries imbodied A female form trembling and pale, Waves before his deathy face.
From William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work by Langridge, Irene
Yet stand alone and isolated, because nothing that is imbodied, nothing that is conscious of separation, nothing that is out of the eternal, can aid you.
From Light On The Path and Through the Gates of Gold by Collins, Mabel
Else a grander idea is conceivable than that which is already imbodied.
From Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women by MacDonald, George
Whatever some of the Eclectic philosophers might have asserted, Plato considered that our ideas were derived from external objects, and never contemplated the extravagant doctrine of imbodying metaphysical abstractions, or personifying intellectual ideas.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
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