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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Em·bod·y v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embodied p. pr. & vb. n. Embodying.] 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. [Written also imbody.]
    Devils embodied and disembodied.   --Sir W. Scott.
    The soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin.   --South.

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 embodied
      adj 1: expressed by; "the idea embodied in the text"
      2: possessing or existing in bodily form; "what seemed corporal
         melted as breath into the wind"- Shakespeare; "an
         incarnate spirit"; "`corporate' is an archaic term" [syn:
         bodied, corporal, corporate, incarnate]

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 embody
      v 1: represent in bodily form; "He embodies all that is evil
           wrong with the system"; "The painting substantiates the
           feelings of the artist" [syn: incarnate, body forth,
            substantiate]
      2: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was
         Hamlet" [syn: be, personify]
      3: represent or express something abstract in tangible form;
         "This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic
         period"
      [also: embodied]

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 embodied
      See embody