Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To make carnal; debase to carnality.
Wiktionary
- v. To make physical or materialistic, as opposed to spiritual
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To make carnal; to debase to carnality.
WordNet 3.0
- v. represent materialistically, as in a painting or a sculpture
- v. ascribe to an origin in sensation
- v. debase through carnal gratification
Examples
“Are paintings and carvings less likely to carnalize our hearts in our halls and banqueting-rooms than in our chapels?”
“The former have been regarded, like their corresponding mental passions, as something of a lower and baser nature, tending to degrade and carnalize man by their physical appetites.”
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vanishedone New York Times: 'The effect is grotesque, of a feline Tony Soprano brutalizing and carnalizing Carroll’s delicate surrealism. I imagine it would give children nightmares.' Jan 11, 2009