carnal

4 definitions found

carnal - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Carnal \Car"nal\, a. [L. carnalis, fr. caro, carnis, flesh; akin
     to Gr. ?, Skr. kravya; cf. F. charnel, Of. also carnel. Cf.
     Charnel.]
     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.
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              For ye are yet carnal.                --1 Cor. iii.
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              Not sunk in carnal pleasure.          --Milton
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              Carnal desires after miracles.        --Trench.
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     2. Flesh-devouring; cruel; ravenous; bloody. [Obs.]
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              This carnal cur
              Preys on the issue of his mother's body. --Shak.
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     Carnal knowledge, sexual intercourse; -- used especially of
        an unlawful act on the part of the man.
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carnal - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  carnal
      adj 1: marked by the appetites and passions of the body; "animal
             instincts"; "carnal knowledge"; "fleshly desire"; "a
             sensual delight in eating"; "music is the only sensual
             pleasure without vice" [syn: animal(a), carnal,
             fleshly, sensual]
      2: of or relating to the body or flesh; "carnal remains"

carnal - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Carnal
  Unconverted men are so called (1 Cor. 3:3). They are represented
  as of a "carnal mind, which is enmity against God" (Rom. 8:6,
  7). Enjoyments that minister to the wants and desires of man's
  animal nature are so called (Rom. 15:27; 1 Cor. 9:11). The
  ceremonial of the Mosaic law is spoken of as "carnal," because
  it related to things outward, the bodies of men and of animals,
  and the purification of the flesh (Heb. 7:16; 9:10). The weapons
  of Christian warfare are "not carnal", that is, they are not of
  man's device, nor are wielded by human power (2 Cor. 10:4).

carnal - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  113 Moby Thesaurus words for "carnal":
     Adamic, Circean, Philistine, amorous, animal, animalistic,
     aphrodisiomaniacal, backsliding, bawdy, beastlike, beastly,
     bestial, bodily, brutal, brute, brutish, carnal-minded,
     clitoromaniacal, coarse, concupiscent, corporal, corporeal, dirty,
     earthly, earthy, erogenic, erogenous, erotic, eroticomaniacal,
     erotogenic, erotomaniacal, erring, fallen, fleshly, frail, gamic,
     goatish, gross, gynecomaniacal, heterosexual, horny, hot,
     hysteromaniacal, impure, infirm, ithyphallic, lapsed, lascivious,
     lecherous, lewd, libidinal, libidinous, licentious, lickerish,
     lubricious, lustful, material, materialistic, mundane,
     nonspiritual, nuptial, nymphomaniacal, obscene, of easy virtue,
     orgiastic, oversexed, pandemic, peccable, physical, postlapsarian,
     potent, priapic, procreative, prodigal, profane, prurient, randy,
     recidivist, recidivistic, salacious, satyric, secular, sensual,
     sensuous, sex, sexed, sexlike, sexual, sexy, somatic, straight,
     substantial, swinish, temporal, terrestrial, unangelic, unchaste,
     unclean, undersexed, ungodly, ungood, unrighteous, unsaintly,
     unspiritual, unvirtuous, venereal, virtueless, voluptuous, vulgar,
     wanton, wayward, weak, worldly