be incarnate
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It is held to be incarnate in each climate, culture and race.
From Time Magazine Archive
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When a god was believed to be incarnate in a species of birds or animals or fish, omens were naturally drawn from the appearance and behaviour of the creatures.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Frazer, James George, Sir
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 Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes
And after the same manner the Nature is also said to be incarnate, not that it is changed to flesh, but that it assumed the nature of flesh.
From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
Other spirits, called ataro, might be incarnate in almost any animal.
From The Evolution of the Dragon by Smith, G. Elliot