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Definition of Carnal

1. Adjective. Marked by the appetites and passions of the body. "Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice"

2. Adjective. Of or relating to the body or flesh. "Carnal remains"

Definition of Carnal

1. a. Of or pertaining to the body or its appetites; animal; fleshly; sensual; given to sensual indulgence; lustful; human or worldly as opposed to spiritual.

Definition of Carnal

1. Adjective. relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites ¹

2. Adjective. worldly or earthly; temporal ¹

3. Adjective. of or relating to the body or flesh ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Carnal

1. pertaining to bodily appetites [adj] : CARNALLY [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Carnal

carmined carmines carminic carminic acid carminite carminomycin 4-O-methyltransferase carminophil carmofur carmoisine carmot

carmovirus carmustine carn carnage carnages carnal abuse carnalise carnalism carnalisms carnalist

carnalists carnalite carnalites carnalities carnalize carnalized carnalizes

Literary usage of Carnal

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Joseph Bellamy by Joseph Bellamy, Tryon Edwards (1850)
"The carnal mind is enmity against Ood ; for it is not subject to the law of God, ... Is the carnal mind enmity against God's true and real character, ..."

2. Life and Death of Mr. Badman and The Holy War by John Bunyan (1905)
"The which when Mr. carnal Security perceived, he presently addrest himself in a speech thus to him: Godly. Unto whom the good old Gentleman discreetly ..."

3. A Treatise on the Law of Crimes by William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall, Herschel Bouton Lazell (1905)
"Similar statutes have been enacted in this country.884 In some states the statute punishes the carnal knowledge of girls of as much as sixteen years of age, ..."

4. Commentaries on the Law of Statutory Crimes: Including the Written Laws and by Joel Prentiss Bishop (1901)
"Nor need the age of the defendant be set out, though the statutory words are " any person of the age of fourteen years and upward, who shall have carnal ..."

5. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child, George Lyman Kittredge (1886)
"55 THE carnal AND THE CRANE ' The carnal and the Crane.' a. Sandys, Christmas Carols, p. 152, Christmastide, p. 246, from a broadside, b. ..."

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