(represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist")
(represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet")
(represent or express something abstract in tangible form; "This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period")
(possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term")