Noah Webster
Imbody
IMBOD'Y, verb transitive [in and body.] To form into a body; to invest with matter; to make corporeal; as, to imbody the soul or spirit.
An opening cloud reveals
A heavenly form, imbodied and array'd
With robes of light.
1. To form into a body, collection or system; as, to imbody the laws of a state in a code.
2. To bring into a band, company, regiment, brigade, army, or other regular assemblage; to collect; as, to embody the forces of a nation.
Then Clausus came, who led a numerous band
Of troops imbodied.
IMBOD'Y, verb intransitive To unite in a body, mass or collection; to coalesce.