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fleshify en · VERB

Etymology

From flesh + -ify.

Meanings

1. To make or become flesh; to incarnate.
   • In this novel, Figgis takes the material of his poetry and "fleshifies" it; his ideas take shape as characters, allowing his mystical vision to realise itself symbolically. 1993, The Journal of Irish Literature - Volume 22, page 11:
   • Now Shakspeare must have known that the spirit of Artemus, when fleshified as Ward, would produce a good fellow, or he would not have done it. 1870, Edward Peron Hingston, The Genial Showman, page 93:
   • He is loved not so much because he is pre-eminently a poet, though that he is so is the main fact about him, but because in his best-known poems there is displayed the humour and good sense of his countrymen, touched with ecstasy ; poetical rapture fleshified, or rather good solid bone and muscle rising to a spiritual exhilaration. 1912, Adolphus Alfred Jack, Poetry and Prose: Being Essays on Modern English Poetry, page 73:
   • In recognition of the charge of chilly, mechanized disembodiment often leveled at network theory and posthumanist philosophy, I propose to fleshify world literature's map, taking flesh as a tactile figure for both the materiality of inscription and the affective sensorium that pulses through the written. 2013, Joachim Küpper, Approaches to World Literature, page 107:
   • The poem subjects the “wind” to a deeply embodied personification; it must fleshify. 2019, Ruth Jennison, Julian Murphet, Communism and Poetry: Writing Against Capital, page 216:
2. To fatten; to swell; to grow fleshy.
   • The galls called Devonshire galls, which grow in great numbers sometimes on the buds of oaks and some other trees, are simply fleshified buds; the leaves, instead of spreading out into a thin palm, become inspissated with the juices of the tree, and are thus agglomerated into a globular woody mass like a tuber. 1893, Transactions and Proceedings of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, Volume 19, page 65:
   • But if the full-blown body had lost the amenities of its earlier proportions, an observer might still discern in the less fleshified face more than a trace or vague suggestion of the impudent prettiness that had allured Joseph Tibbenham in the days when he was quite unknown and a relatively poor man. 1919, Justin Huntly McCarthy, Nurse Benson, page 92:
   • A vascular stem will be seen, and at the top of it a whorl of fleshified leaves all enclosed within the tubercle. 1882, The Garden - Volume 22, page 437:

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