be incarnate
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It is held to be incarnate in each climate, culture and race.
From Time Magazine Archive
The same god was also supposed to be incarnate in the octopus, and also in the land crab.
From Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by George Turner
Whatever was most brilliant in the spirit of the Italian Benaissance seemed to be incarnate in Lorenzo.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
The most renowned was the Hapi or Apis bull of Memphis, in whom Ptah was said to be incarnate, and who was Osirified and became the Osir-hapi.
From The Religion of Ancient Egypt by Sir W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders) Petrie
For generations the Verplancks have been what people expected them to be, incarnate formulas of etiquette and timid living.
From The Collectors by Frank Jewett Mather
