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Definition of Carnalise
1. Verb. Debase through carnal gratification.
Generic synonyms: Corrupt, Debase, Debauch, Demoralise, Demoralize, Deprave, Misdirect, Pervert, Profane, Subvert, Vitiate
Derivative terms: Carnal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Carnalise
Literary usage of Carnalise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Enigmas of Life by William Rathbone Greg (1872)
"It never occurred to those creed- makers, who thus took upon themselves to
carnalise an idea into a fact, that for every atom that once went to make up the ..."
2. Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle (1869)
"... perhaps there is that in your circumstances, business, aud earthly connections
which tends to lower the standard of morality, to carnalise your spirit, ..."
3. Ephphatha: Or, The Amelioration of the World. Sermons Preached at by Frederic William Farrar (1880)
"... carnalise the aspirations which they should cherish, and feed into uncontrollable
force the many-headed monster of the passions which they should ..."
4. The Elements of Social Science, Or, Physical, Sexual and Natural Religion by George Robert Drysdale (1877)
"... than the divine pity and assistance which should wait upon al error, physical
and moral. ding to degrade and carnalise man by their physical appetites. ..."
5. The Centennial Magazine: An Australian Monthly (1889)
"... not always characterised by mere destructiveness ; not a few are " animated
with a reverent love for the ideas which those idols carnalise and stifle. ..."
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