incarnation

n 1: ny new embodiment of a familiar idea; "the incarnation of

evil"; "the very avatar of cunning" [syn: {embodiment},

{avatar}]

2: the Christian doctrine of the union of God and man in the

person of Jesus Christ [syn: {Incarnation}]

3: the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract

ideas etc. [syn: {personification}]

incantation

Any particularly arbitrary or obscure command that one must

mutter at a system to attain a desired result. Not used of

passwords or other explicit security features. Especially

used of tricks that are so poorly documented that they must be

learned from a {wizard}. "This compiler normally locates

initialised data in the data segment, but if you {mutter} the

right incantation they will be forced into text space."