| 1. manifest or personify in concrete form; incarnate; incorporate, unite into one body. embodyem*body , 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. w. scott. the soul, while it is embodied, can no more be divided from sin.embody em*body, v. i. to unite in a body, a mass, or a collection; to coalesce. [written also imbody.] firmly to embody against this court party.embody v |