Embody
English Meaning
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.
- To give a bodily form to; incarnate.
- To represent in bodily or material form: "As John Adams embodied the old style, Andrew Jackson embodied the new” ( Richard Hofstadter).
- To make part of a system or whole; incorporate: laws that embody a people's values.