to body forth

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to body forth - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Body \Bod"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bodied (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
     Bodying.]
     To furnish with, or as with, a body; to produce in definite
     shape; to embody.
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     To body forth, to give from or shape to mentally.
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              Imagination bodies forth
              The forms of things unknown.          --Shak.
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