carnal

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Freeborn persisted that the reason of the unconverted was carnal, and that such could not understand Scripture.

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  1. adjective Relating to the physical and especially sexual appetites: carnal desire.
  2. adjective Worldly or earthly; temporal: the carnal world.
  3. adjective Of or relating to the body or flesh; bodily: carnal remains.

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  • His touch was sinfully carnal, and she never wanted him to stop. —  Garwood, Julie - Mercy
  • 27 Sidney, Sir Philip, 15 Sin, carnal, the most distinctly human, 111. iv. 34 Sin, deceit, its essence, 49. ii. 44 pardon of, doctrine of, 135. iv. 55 Slang, 105. iv. 25 Greek, 138. iv. 59 Smith's Dictionary, s_, "Gallia," 29. ii. 9 Soissons, battle of, 485 A.D., 7 n.; 9, 20, 52. ii. 49 vase of, 47 sq. —  Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens
  • Are not most of you carnal, all flesh,—the flesh gives laws, and you obey them? —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
  • And therefore the apostle rebukes sharply the Corinthians: “Are ye not carnal, and walk as men, whereas there is among you envying, or zeal, and strife,” 1 Cor. —  The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
  • If the thought is carnal, the body must correspond, must express it in some physical discord Nothing else will destroy the very foundations of vitality quicker than impurity of thought and animal self-indulgence. —  Pushing to the Front
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old North French carnel, from Latin carnālis, from Latin carō, carn-, flesh; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English carnal = Old French carnel, French charnel = Provencal carnel = Spanish Portuguese carnal = Italian carnale, from Latin carnalis, fleshly, of the flesh (Middle Latin, natural, of the same blood or descent), from caro (carn-), flesh, = Greek κρέας, flesh, = Sanskrit kravya, raw flesh, corpse, carrion, = Anglo-Saxon hrāw (= Old Saxon hrēu, hrēo = OFries. hrē (in comp.) = Old High German hrēo, Middle High German = Icelandic hrœ = Goth, hraiw, in comp.), a corpse; prob. akin to Anglo-Saxon hreáw, English raw, q. v., and L. crudus, raw, later English crude, and ult. English cruel, q. v. From Latin carnalis comes also English charnel, q. v.
 

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