If something is embodied in a particular thing, the second thing contains or consists of the first. The proposal has been embodied in a draft resolution UK employment law embodies arbitration and conciliation mechanisms for settling industrial disputes
represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet" represent or express something abstract in tangible form; "This painting embodies the feelings of the Romantic period
To embody an idea or quality means to be a symbol or expression of that idea or quality. Jack Kennedy embodied all the hopes of the 1960s That stability was embodied in the Gandhi family. = represent