1. Of or pertaining to the body or its appetites; animal; fleshly; sensual; given to sensual indulgence; lustful; human
or worldly as opposed to spiritual.
For ye are yet carnal.
1 Cor. iii. 3.
Not sunk in carnal pleasure.
Milton
Carnal desires after miracles.
Trench.
2. Flesh-devouring; cruel; ravenous; bloody. [Obs.]
This carnal cur
Preys on the issue of his mother's body.
Shak.
Carnal knowledge,
sexual intercourse; — used especially of an unlawful act on the part of the man.
Carnalism
(Car"nal*ism) n. The state of being carnal; carnality; sensualism. [R.]
Carnalist
(Car"nal*ist) n. A sensualist. Burton.
Carnality
(Car*nal"i*ty) n. [L. carnalitas.] The state of being carnal; fleshly lust, or the indulgence of
lust; grossness of mind.
Because of the carnality of their hearts.
Tillotson.
Carnalize
(Car"nal*ize) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Carnalized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Carnalizing.] To make carnal; to
debase to carnality.
A sensual and carnalized spirit.
John Scott.
Carnallite
(Car"nal*lite) n. [G. carnallit, fr. Von Carnall, a Prussian.] (Min.) A hydrous chloride of
potassium and magnesium, sometimes found associated with deposits of rock salt.
Carnally
(Car"nal*ly) adv. According to the flesh, to the world, or to human nature; in a manner to gratify
animal appetites and lusts; sensually.
For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
Rom. viii. 6.
Carnal-minded
(Car"nal-mind`ed) a. Worldly-minded.
Carnal-mindedness
(Car"nal-mind"ed*ness), n. Grossness of mind.
Carnary
(Car"na*ry) n. [L. carnarium, fr. caro, carnis, flesh.] A vault or crypt in connection with
a church, used as a repository for human bones disintered from their original burial places; a charnel
house.
Carnassial
(Car*nas"si*al) a. [Cf. F. carnassier carnivorous, and L. caro, carnis, flesh.] (Anat.) Adapted
to eating flesh. — n. A carnassial tooth; especially, the last premolar in many carnivores.
Carnate
(Car"nate) a. [L. carnatus fleshy.] Invested with, or embodied in, flesh.
Carnation
(Car*na"tion) n. [F. carnation the flesh tints in a painting, It carnagione, fr. L. carnatio fleshiness,
fr. caro, carnis, flesh. See Carnal.]
1. The natural color of flesh; rosy pink.
Her complexion of the delicate carnation.
Ld. Lytton.