Hypertext Webster Gateway: "incarnation"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Incarnation
that act of grace whereby Christ took our human nature into
union with his Divine Person, became man. Christ is both God and
man. Human attributes and actions are predicated of him, and he
of whom they are predicated is God. A Divine Person was united
to a human nature (Acts 20:28; Rom. 8:32; 1 Cor. 2:8; Heb.
2:11-14; 1 Tim. 3:16; Gal. 4:4, etc.). The union is
hypostatical, i.e., is personal; the two natures are not mixed
or confounded, and it is perpetual.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Incarnation \In`car*na"tion\, n. [F. incarnation, LL.
incarnatio.]
1. The act of clothing with flesh, or the state of being so
clothed; the act of taking, or being manifested in, a
human body and nature.
2. (Theol.) The union of the second person of the Godhead
with manhood in Christ.
3. An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a
reduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification in
person or act.
She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious
dead. --Jeffrey.
The very incarnation of selfishness. --F. W.
Robertson.
4. A rosy or red color; flesh color; carnation. [Obs.]
5. (Med.) The process of healing wounds and filling the part
with new flesh; granulation.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
incarnation
n 1: a new embodiment of a familiar idea; "the incarnation of
evil"; "the very avatar of cunning" [syn: {embodiment},
{avatar}]
2: the Christian doctrine of the union of God and man in the
person of Jesus Christ [syn: {Incarnation}]
3: the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract
ideas etc. [syn: {personification}]
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