1º_ As an adjective it is said of the spiritual or symbolic that takes living body, usually human, and is used in a metaphorical sense to qualify a person as a living example of some virtue or moral defect; for believers in metempsychosis it is the soul that returns to this world in a new body. Reincarnated. 2º_ It is said of the color red, of the color of the flesh. 3º_ Participle of the verb incarnate .